A few years back I was at a convention somewhere and I stumbled into Palm's booth. They were showcasing a small half-qwerty keyboard. I was instantly in love, but didn't have the $$$ to drop on ...

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Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.

Lately, the momentum towards touchscreens and smartphones as primary computing devices has been overwhelming. As a result, there are fewer and fewer roles for the physical keyboard, though it's likely ...

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Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

"Fingers on the home row!" Those words were drilled into us every single day in basic keyboarding class in high school. What is the "home row," you may wonder? Well, knowing the "home row" is the ...

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers. The first typing machines had keyboards with an ...

How intuitive are modern keyboards? It can take a beginner ages to really get up to speed with a QWERTY keyboard, and without some form of formal training, most people wind up becoming one-finger ...

On The Vergecast: one man’s quest to build a better keyboard, AI’s future at Microsoft, and all the thumbs on Netflix. On The Vergecast: one man’s quest to build a better keyboard, AI’s future at ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...