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First Computer Mouse Invented
The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963-1964 and consisted of a wooden shell, circuit board and two metal wheels that came into contact with the surface it was being used on. -
Ball Mouse Invented
It was 8-9 years later in 1972 that Bill English developed the design further by inventing what is known as the "Ball Mouse" that we know today. -
Optical Mouse Invented
Early optical mice, first demonstrated by two independent inventors in 1980, came in two different varieties -
Laser Mouse Invented
The laser mouse uses an infrared laser diode instead of a LED to illuminate the surface beneath their sensor. As early as 1998, Sun Microsystems provided a laser mouse with their Sun SPARCstation servers and workstations. However, laser mice did not enter the mainstream market until 2004, when Paul Machin at Logitech, in partnership with Agilent Technologies, introduced its MX 1000 laser mouse. -
New concept of 3D mouse
In November 2010 a German Company called Axsotic introduced a new concept of 3D mouse called 3D Spheric Mouse. This new concept of a true six degree-of-freedom input device uses a ball to rotate in 3 axes without any limitations.
