The overview of pointing devices: Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Mouse, Livescribe 3 Smartpen Essay

1.4.2 Pointing device

Pointing device is a pointer with a small symbol on the screen whose location and shape change as a user moves a pointing device. The examples for pointing device are mouse, touchpad and trackball. Mouse is a pointing device that fits under the palm of users hand comfortably. Few types of mouse that exist are optical mouse, laser mouse and touch mouse. Commonly mouse come with twobutton mouse, but nowadays technology make mouse available to touch function.

To add, mice and trackpad with touchpad and gesture support the touch enabled windows 8 and 10. As for the usage of the company staff, Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Mouse is recommended to be use. This is because Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Mouse enable to reduce the health hazard of company staff. Not only that, this mouse has tiny, portable design that giving ambidextrous support for the user.

1.4.5 Digital Pen

The Livescribe 3 Smartpen is a type of digital pen. The reason we choose this model in the drawing and sketch is because it has a longer battery life which it can use up to 14 hours. Besides this model able to convert any handwritten form or sketches into an editable form and it writes smoothly with a comfort grip on the side.

This function can allow the lecture video producer to drawing smoothly can recorded by the screen recording software .To add this pen are more design in a solid build way, and just on the top of this pen there is a small nub to function as stylus on a touchscreen. While, there are some disadvantage of thi digital pen , which is it need a Livescribe Dot Paper to function with this pen . Livescribe Dot Paper is a type of paper which its patterned with tiny dots that function to capture every word or sketches. The paper come with a function to tag certain words, and flagged words is tap on, it will play back the audio you recorded on your smartphone or tablet

1.4.7 Microphone

Next, a microphone is also an input device that allow computer users to input audio into their computers. Most of the microphones connect to the computer using the mic port on the computer sound card. Higher quality microphones are able to connect to the USB port. In occasion, digital camera also equipped with microphone for studio recording purpose. In addition, there is a true shotgun microphone designed for use with camcorders like DSLR and sudio recorder called

The RODE VideoMic Pro, DSLR cameras and portable audio recorders as a source of primary and reference audio. Just at the center of VideoMic Pro there is a 1/2" condenser capsule which produce a broadcastquality audio by connect to a 3.5mm mini jack connector , and with an outstanding low selfnoise gate which level at 14db.

To ensures that surrounding audio is minimised this microphone has a supercardioid polar pattern, this enable your recording focused on the subject in front of the camera.