The QWERTY keyboard is a technological cockroach, an 1880s invention that’s resisted the evolution of PCs, laptops, smartphones and even touch-screen smartphones. It’s not the fastest or most ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eric Schofield demonstrates using the training tool on DOTkey. DOTkey is a touchscreen keyboard changing the way one can type. (Ty Mullen) BYU computer science professor Frank Jones has been ...
Meet the 5-Tiles Keyboard, (yet) another contender taking aim at disrupting Qwerty — and hoping to increase its chances by first targeting smaller wearable devices, such as smartwatches. The rational ...
DecaTxt is a handheld mobile text input device that's logical and fairly simple. Just don't expect to master it quickly. Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and ...
The QWERTY layout of the keyboard has existed for more than 100 years. But in the age of smart phones and tablets, is it time for a redesign? Researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland ...