Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers.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

It there’s one thing that has stood the test of time while being continually confronted by challenger after challenger, it’s the QWERTY keyboard. A quick look at some of the many keyboards we've ...

A new keyboard called KALQ, created by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, University of Montana, and the University of St. Andrews, enables users to thumb-type on touchscreen ...

If you spend most of your days typing at a desk, it's worth looking into an ergonomic keyboard. The traditional flat QWERTY keyboard design wasn't designed with comfort in mind, and really, why should ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

In today's digital age, the keyboard has replaced pen and paper for writing. We have become so habituated to typing on the keyboard that we can type very fast even with our eyes closed. But while ...

The story of the QWERTY layout begins with the invention of the mechanical typewriter in the 19th Century. In the early 1870s, an American inventor named Christopher Latham Sholes, along with his ...