Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

PocketMage is a $185 crowdfunded pocket computer with an e-paper display, physical keyboard, and distraction-free tools.

The ESP32 family are the microcontrollers which just keep on giving, as new versions keep them up-to-date and plenty of hackers come up with new things for them. A popular device is a general purpose ...

PocketMage is a dual-screen E Ink PDA with an OLED strip and QWERTY keyboard, bringing minimalist retro computing back to ...

Computers are designed top-to-bottom for Latin-language users, but this one-size-fits-all thinking has created decades of difficulty for the rest of the world—particularly China. This story first ...

Most native English speakers are accustomed to the QWERTY keyboard, using it regularly on their phone, home computer, or at work. Start typing at speed on a German keyboard, though, and you'll quickly ...

Typing could have evolved very differently, and these layouts are the evidence.

Could a spongy musical instrument hold the future of computer interaction, wonders Tom Chatfield. Q-W-E-R-T-Y. Six letters that define so much of our waking lives. If they are not there on the screen ...