Computer devices such as mice, printers, scanners and speakers are known as peripheral hardware. These peripherals are further split into two categories, input devices and output devices.

Input Devices for Physically Challenged Computer Users. ... This virtual keyboard overlays your screen, and lets you type by using your mouse to click the keyboard's characters.

Likewise, trendy input innovator Swype is among companies working to create a "thin-air" keyboard where users' gestures in the air can be used instead of any type of physical keyboard.

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of a compact and lightweight wearable ring-type device that offers handwriting-input functionality and a reader for near-field communications ...

2. Start up in Safe Mode. Reboot the system while holding the shift key to get into Safe Mode. This will force the system to purge the boot caches and reload it with drivers the system commonly uses.

Touch your arm to continue: A Carnegie Mellon University-Microsoft partnership produces "Skinput," an input method prototype that turns your skin into a touchscreen of sorts.

Input devices are not glamorous. But few pieces of equipment see more use — or have more potential to affect your computing experience — than the lowly keyboard and mouse.