1995 — Logitech TrackMan Marble trackball
The Trackman Marble trackball, released to the market by Logitech in 1995, was the first trackball to use an all-optical motion detection principle, without the use of an optomechanical encoder. This trackball has three keys, which are the standard three mouse buttons, and a ball positioned to be rotated by the right thumb. A regular pattern of dark dots on…