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COMPUTER INPUT DEVICES

MOUSE
Mouse is another input device which is commonly found connected with the computers. It is
basically a pointing device which works on the principle of Point and Click. When the mouse is
moved on the mouse pad, a light beam underneath reflect to give motion to the pointer on the
screen.

The mouse is used in windows based programs, where the user can run the commands by pointing
the objects with the help of pointer and clicking the buttons on the mouse. We also use mouse for
drawing in paint and kid pix.

Most of the latest mouses, these days, include a wheel in the middle of two buttons that help us to
scroll through documents more easily. we use our forefinger to move the wheel to scroll up or
down in a document. Optical mouse uses red light to track the movement of mouse for moving
the pointer on the computer screen. This type of mouse is more accurate and reliable than the
traditional mouse.

Nowadays cordless mouse is very popular. it dose not have wires. it either uses Bluetooth
technology to sends the data through the air to a receiver, usually plugged in USB port of the
computer.

JOYSTICK AND GAME-PAD


Joystick and game-pad are also input devices which are also input devices which are used to
control the movement of object on the screen. Just like mouse, these are also pointing devices.
Mostly they are used for playing games on the computer.
The joystick has a vertical stick with a track ball at its bottom. While playing the games on the
computer, the user needs to move the objects quickly on the screen. With the movement of this
vertical stick the objects can be moved in all the directions easily.

A game-pad is a type of game controller held in two hands, where the fingers (especially
thumbs)are used to provide input by pressing buttons on it. It is also known as Control Pad.

LIGHT PEN
A light pen is a computer input device in the form of a light-sensitive wand used in conjunction
with a computer's cathode-ray tube (CRT) display.

It allows the user to point to displayed objects or draw on the screen in a similar way to
a touchscreen but with greater positional accuracy. A light pen can work with any CRT-based
display, but its ability to be used with LCDs was unclear (though Toshiba and Hitachi displayed a
similar idea at the "Display 2006" show in Japan[1]).

A light pen detects changes in brightness of nearby screen pixels when scanned by cathode-ray
tube electron beam and communicates the timing of this event to the computer. Since a CRT
scans the entire screen one pixel at a time, the computer can keep track of the expected time of
scanning various locations on screen by the beam and infer the pen's position from the latest
timestamp.

Light pen is another pointing type input device. It is a pen shaped device which can be used by
directly pointing the objects on the screen. It can also be used for making drawings directly on the
monitor screen.

SCANNER
A scanner is a device that captures images from photographic prints, posters, magazine pages, and
similar sources for computer editing and display. Scanners come in hand-held, feed-in, and
flatbed types and for scanning black-and-white only, or color. Very high resolution scanners are
used for scanning for high-resolution printing, but lower resolution scanners are adequate for
capturing images for computer display. Scanners usually come with software, such as Adobe's
Photoshop product, that lets you resize and otherwise modify a captured image.

Scanners usually attach to your personal computer with a Small Computer System Interface
( SCSI ). An application such as PhotoShop uses the TWAIN program to read in the image.

Some major manufacturers of scanners include: Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Microtek, and Relisys.

We can store pictures, photographs, diagrams into the computer with the help of scanner. The
scanner reads the image and saves it in the computer as a file.

MICROPHONE
A microphone, colloquially named mic or mike (/maɪk/), is a device – a transducer – that
converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such
as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and public events, motion
picture production, live and recorded audio engineering, sound recording, two-way
radios, megaphones, radio and television broadcasting, and in computers for recording
voice, speech recognition, VoIP, and for non-acoustic purposes such as ultrasonic sensors
or knock sensors.

Several types of microphone are in use, which employ different methods to convert the air
pressure variations of a sound wave to an electrical signal. The most common are the dynamic
microphone, which uses a coil of wire suspended in a magnetic field; the condenser microphone,
which uses the vibrating diaphragm as a capacitor plate; and the piezoelectric microphone, which
uses a crystal of piezoelectric material. Microphones typically need to be connected to
a preamplifier before the signal can be recorded or reproduced.

This is an input device which is used to record sound or voice into the computer system. You can
store voice data in the computer by speaking in front of this device.

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