Trackballs are an acquired taste. Some look on them as oddities, but here's a confession: I've been using a trackball for well over a decade and find the arrangement comfortable and easy to work with.

The trackball is a contentious kind of peripheral. Most people point to the mouse or the trackpad as superior ways to move a cursor across the screen, but for a small subset of nerds, myself included, ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio products, ...