The film showcases the innovative work of engineers at Bell Telephone Laboratories as they explore computer graphics and its applications in designing electronic circuits. Using a device called ...

If you worked with computers back in the 1970s, there’s a good chance you used a light pen at some point: a simple input device that you’d point at the CRT screen to highlight text, choose menu ...

Malcolm Lyall-Watson reports for Tomorrow's World on the computer interface of the future - a light pen that can draw directly onto a phosphorescent computer screen. The device, developed by Elliott ...

Way before you kids had touch screens and mice, we had to walk uphill both ways to tell a computer where we were pointing at on the screen. I speak, of course, of light pens. When these photodiodes in ...

Texas Instruments and Fairchild semiconductor both announce the integrated circuit in 1959. Ivan Sutherland demonstrates a program called Sketchpad on a TX-2 mainframe at MIT's Lincoln Labs in 1962.

is an editor overseeing The Verge’s product reviews and service journalism programs. Dan has covered the technology world for over a decade at The Verge. What if you had a fancy new metal material ...