[Uri Tuchman] decided to build a fancy metal engraved computer mouse for a little more style on the desktop. The build starts by gutting a simple three-button scroll mouse, as there’s really no ...

Steve Ramirez, a 24-year-old doctoral student at the time, placed the mouse in a small metal box with a black plastic floor. Instead of curiously sniffing around, though, the animal instantly ...

Early prototypes of the mouse featured a rectangular wooden shell with two metal wheels inside – one for the X axis and one for the Y axis. The device had just one button, located in the top corner.