Thursday, July 9, 2015

Input Devices

Computer Hardware Components

Input Devices
Input Device is a peripheral hardware device in computing.  It provides data and control signals to a computer, which can be mechanical motion, audio-visual, discrete or continuous, direct or indirect, absolute or relative, two-dimensional or three-dimensional etc.  More...

Keyboards
Keyboard is a typewriter-style input device in computing.  It uses an arrangement of buttons or keys, to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches.  It is usually the main input device for computers.  More...






Mice
Mouse is a hand-held pointing device used as an input device in computing.  It detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface and translates it into the motion of a pointer on a computer display and allows control of the graphical user interface (GUI). More...
 






Joysticks
Joystick is an input device in computing.  It consists of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.  They are often used to control video games and usually have one or more push-buttons whose state can also be read by the computer.  More...











Microphones
Microphone is an input devices used in computing.  It is used to record voice, speech recognition, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), and for non-acoustic purposes such as ultrasonic checking or knock sensors.  More...




Light Pens
Light Pen is an input device in computing.  It is a light-sensitive wand used with a computer display, which allows the user to point to displayed objects or draw on the screen with greater positional accuracy by detecting the change of brightness of nearby screen pixels when scanned by cathode ray tube (CRT) electron beam and communicates the timing of this event to the computer.  More...




Touchscreens
Touchscreen is an input device in computing.  It is normally layered on top of an electronic visual display.  User can give input or control the graphical user interface (GUI) through simple or multi-touch gestures by touching the screen with a special stylus/pen and-or one or more fingers.  They are common in devices such as game consoles, personal computers, tablet computers, automatic teller machines (ATM), and smartphones. 
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Scanners
Scanner is an input device in computing.  It optically scans text, graphics, images, or objects and converts it to a digital image.  More...













Digital Cameras
Digital Camera or digicam is a camera that encodes digital images and videos digitally and stores them for later reproduction.  However, they can be used as input as well as output devices in computing.  More...

















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