pointing stick

Above the keyboard at the left are a pointing stick and two mouse buttons.

One that has a stylus and a pointing stick.

The user can often customize the operation of pointing sticks using software.

"Problem's simple," the colonel said as he stood with pointing stick before a map of the two Koreas.

A pointing stick is a pressure sensitive small nub used like a joystick.

A pointing stick is mounted on the bezel to the right of the screen, with the buttons above each other behind it.

Keyboard standard does not include layouts incorporating separate keypads or pointing stick.

A parallel to this is the pointing stick or blasting wand used in other forms of magical ritual.

Users were often presented the option to purchase a pointing stick, touchpad, or trackball.

The pointing stick is positioned such that the hands do not need to be removed from the home row to manipulate the mouse pointer.

The improved Trackpoint pointing stick is my favorite among portable pointing devices.

The pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard feels a bit too short, and the palm rest a bit too shallow.

A common problem of pointing sticks is the inability to identify the zero position (the position indicating no user touch).

The pointing stick was invented by American computer scientist Ted Selker in 1984.

A wider, thinner machine with a "butterfly" expanding keyboard, bigger keys and a better pointing stick would make fingers happy.

Franz Kafka looked at his small, elite group of 22nd century students and tapped on the large text display with his pointing stick.

In his 1998 VH1 Storytellers special, he even explained it on stage using a blackboard and a pointing stick.

Analog devices, such as 3D mice, joysticks, or pointing sticks, function by reporting their angle of deflection.

Amid a 10-minute explanation of the graffiti-like carvings, she takes her bamboo pointing stick and identifies an x carved into the rock.

The pointing stick operates by sensing applied force, by using a pair of resistive strain gauges.

Pointing stick may refer to:

When the second verse begins the students are in the classroom while guards patrol its perimeter and the teacher hits a blackboard with a pointing stick.

I demand the central pointing sticks found on I.B.M. and Toshiba models.

Switching to a trackpad or pointing stick, which requires no gripping or tensing of the muscles in the arms may help as well.

Mice, trackballs and "eraserhead" pointing sticks all have vociferous fans and vehement opponents.