From solid steel balls to unusable hockey pucks to sleek pieces of sushi, we cover all of Apple's mouse designs. And we couldn't stop there, so we threw in some trackpads and third-party pointers for good measure. 🐭
Followup
- G4 Cube
- iMac carrying case
- Patrick Blampied's iOS Macintosh Portable
- lead-acid batteries
- Mac Portable battery weighed ~2 pounds
- PowerBook 100 had one too [manual pdf]
Mouse history
- previously: e6 – Keyboards
- elsewhere: 512px on Apple mice
- elsewhere: Apple Mouse Museum
- interview about the first mouse
- Douglas Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos"
- Xerox Alto mouse
Apple mice
- Macintosh Mouse
- Apple Desktop Bus mouse
- ADB Mouse II
- Apple USB Mouse
- Apple Pro Mouse
- Mighty Mouse
- Magic Mouse
…and trackpads
- "How to refer to the pointer thing on laptop keyboards"
- Cirque GlidePoint
- PowerBook 500
- trackpad tapping trick
- Multi-Touch
- Force Touch
- rumored iPhone Force Touch home button