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 ...

A new keyboard for tablet computers promises to speed up typing by a third - by ditching the traditional QWERTY layout. Researchers at St Andrews University and Germany's Max Planck institute used ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout, a source of bewilderment since its creation in the 1870s, actually follows a logical design process. Originally designed with an alphabetical order, newspaper editor ...

If you find you are all fingers and thumbs when it comes to typing on a touch-screen device, then help may be at hand. A team including Scots researchers have reimagined the old QWERTY layout – a ...

It has been around since the 1870s - but many people still have no idea why we use QWERTY keyboards. Originally, early typewriters used an alphabetical arrangement but newspaper editor Christopher ...

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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 ...

In the realm of typing, the QWERTY keyboard layout has long been the standard, dominating the landscape for well over a century. There’s the regular one we know, called QWERTY. But have you heard of ...

The QWERTY keyboard has puzzled many since its invention in the 1870s, but there's indeed a method to its seemingly random configuration. Initially featuring an alphabetical setup, newspaper editor ...

A keyboard layout for Windows which behaves the same as the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard for normal typing, but when Ctrl is held down, it behaves like a normal QWERTY layout. Mac OS X provides a ...

The official and widely spread keyboard layout in France is AZERTY. Compared to QWERTY, it adds extra letters such as « é » and « ç ». Unfortunately a lot of characters are missing, for example it's ...

Released in 1989, the Psion MC-400 laptop was way ahead of its time, it included all of these features except one... The QWERTY layout was created by Milwaukee, Wisconsin newspaper editor Christopher ...