Even a device as simple as a computer mouse still has plenty of room for improvement. Modern versions are becoming lighter, ...

But thankfully, inventors Alfred Fielding and his chemist business partner, Marc Chavannes, were extraordinarily open to ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer's creations arrived in the ...

Burt Meyer, the inventive mind behind iconic toys such as Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap, has died at the age of 99. He died on October 30, confirmed by Rebecca Mathis, executive ...

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a soothing way to warm the hand when using a computer mouse," said an inventor, from McKinney, Texas, "so I invented the PROJECT ...