Ploopy's 3D-printed "Bean Pointing Stick" functions as a compact four-button mouse and Thinkpad-style trackpoint. It even adopts the classic IBM color scheme and nipple texture. The buttons are Omron ...

Some PC users like to use a mouse. Others prefer trackpads. But some folks consider Lenovo’s TrackPoint system to be the gold standard for input. Typically found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, the ...

In the pioneer days of laptops, it was not yet clear which mouse input device would win out. Most popular in the 1990s were the trackball, the IBM TrackPoint (and competitor's pointing sticks based on ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It goes by many names: the TrackPoint, the nub, the mouse nipple, the pointing stick, the weird red dot on your ...

Lenovo has announced the ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Enterprise, one of the only Chrome OS devices to offer a “pointing stick” cursor. For those perhaps unfamiliar with the idea of a pointing stick, ...

One of the key differences between Lenovo’s ThinkPad-branded laptops and… pretty much every other laptop on the market these days (including most Lenovo models) is that in addition to a touchpad below ...