By hooking up a keyboard or mouse to the USB port, users can easily edit Office files or connect to a printer to print.

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Go ahead and navigate to where your Atari 2600 ROMs are by using the mouse or the arrow keys on your keyboard.

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Second, newer approaches to CAPTCHA have been developed that try a different approach to a Turing test by asking users to perform operations through input devices, like a keyboard or mouse.

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Windows 8, released in late October, can be controlled by touching a display screen, as well the more traditional use of a keyboard or computer mouse.

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These devices seek to move beyond the mouse and physical keyboard, letting people communicate with their gadgets by gesturing, using sign language or, in the case of Skinput, tapping on their hands, fingers and forearms.

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But Stimac was more excited by what had been left out of the server: There were no connections for a keyboard, mouse or CD-ROM drive.

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