12-09-2008, 03:04 PM
The Mouse !
"Notebook touchpads offer a somewhat fiddly alternative for on-the-go computer users, and touchscreen devices and gesture-based accelerometers might yet spread to be the interaction methods of the future. However, until then, the trusty computer mouse is still the world’s favoured user-to-hardware communication system as it celebrates 40 years at the technology forefront."

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php...nniversary
http://www.macworld.com/article/137400/mouse40.html
"Notebook touchpads offer a somewhat fiddly alternative for on-the-go computer users, and touchscreen devices and gesture-based accelerometers might yet spread to be the interaction methods of the future. However, until then, the trusty computer mouse is still the world’s favoured user-to-hardware communication system as it celebrates 40 years at the technology forefront."

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php...nniversary
http://www.macworld.com/article/137400/mouse40.html