We're living in an age of multiple connected screens, where even our media-savvy televisions demand some occasional typing to search for a videogame, TV show or Netflix rental. Problem is, typing ...

You spend hours with it each day. Your fingertips know it intimately. But how familiar are you with your keyboard's history? The first recorded patent for a typewriting machine was filed by a British ...

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 ...

The only surprising thing about the Iphone QWERTY keyboard is that it took so long in coming. That, and the curious capitalization of iPhone in its name. With iOS4, iDevices can talk to an external ...

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...

Rare as they are in today's handsets, the enduring physical keyboard still pops up from time to time on a mobile phone. And with good reason -- for some users, there's nothing quite like pecking out ...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Following its introduction in 1873, QWERTY became the most popular keyboard layout. While it was designed to prevent typewriter typebars from jamming, its longevity beyond the ...

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