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 ...
The QWERTY keyboard layout was invented in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes to prevent typewriter keys from jamming. It remains the most widely used keyboard layout today. Representative Image ...
We use the keyboards we use simply because they’re the ones we’ve always used. Is this the most efficient layout of letters? Hephzibah Anderson takes a look. They may not be quite as superstitious as ...
If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...
After the success of gesture-based keyboards such as Swype (and if you’re really keeping track, ShapeWriter before it), the next obvious disruption to keyboard technology is optimisation of the legacy ...