Trackballs are an acquired taste. Some look on them as oddities, but here's a confession: I've been using a trackball for well over a decade and find the arrangement comfortable and easy to work with.

While a traditional computer mouse is fairly simple and intuitive to use, it does have its drawbacks. For instance, if you don’t have a lot of desk space, you can repeatedly run out of room. With a ...

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The trackball is a contentious kind of peripheral. Most people point to the mouse or the trackpad as superior ways to move a cursor across the screen, but for a small subset of nerds, myself included, ...

Logitech on Wednesday released a new lower-cost trackball mouse with an ergonomic design and made partly from recycled material. Like other trackballs, the M575 provides the ability to move a cursor ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio products, ...

Being left-handed can be a major pain. Finding tools that can accommodate a dominant left hand is tiresome from paper to PC. While many left-handed gamers have had to make do with standard mice, some ...