Input Devices

What is a Input device?

main text input device used and made up of wires that connect together in a grid pattern

• Mouse

• Keyboard

• Microphone

• Scanner

Input device used to record or transmit sound made by a person's voice when they talk or sing in order to communicate with another

• Mouse

• Keyboard

• Microphone

• Touchpad

Input device that is a special monitor that is touched with the finger to make selections and often used at a kiosk or bank machine and with Smartphones

• Keyboard

• Touch Screen

• Light Screen

• Joystick

Uses a ball and rollers to determine how to move the mouse point

• Mouse

• Optical Mouse

• Joystick

• Mechanical Mouse

An input device that can read text or pictures printed on paper and translate the information into a form the computer can use; serves as the eyes of the camera

• Webcam

• Microphone

• Scanner

• Touchpad

A video camera that inputs to a computer connected to the internet, so that its images can be viewed by the internet user.

• Scanner

• Mouse

• Webcam

• Printer