No matter what generation you’re from, what year you were born, we all learned to type practically the same way – on some variant of the keyboard that stemmed from the original, spaced keys of the ...

"Fingers on the home row!" Those words were drilled into us every single day in basic keyboarding class in high school. What is the "home row," you may wonder? Well, knowing the "home row" is the ...

Uncover the surprising Wisconsin origins of the QWERTY keyboard. The team heads to Milwaukee to uncover how the QWERTY keyboard took shape in Wisconsin. They explore how Christopher Latham Sholes and ...

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 ...

For bold system builders and users, third-party keyboards now exist that can make up for Qwerty's drawbacks. Some condition the user to their improve touch-typing using Qwerty, while others dispense ...

Yet QWERTY typing tends to degenerate into long one-handed strings of letters, especially strings for the weak left hand. More than 3,000 English words utilize QWERTY’s left hand alone, and about 300 ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqo6cuthFIk&w=640&h=360] SnapKeys, an ‘invisible’ touchscreen keyboard maker, has updated its Si Revolution Android ...

The KALQ keyboard layout. Photo: Outlasvirta et al. In 2012, says the New York Times, “cellphone owners sent an average of 678 texts a month.” That’s a lot of messages, and we’re guessing at least ...

Touchscreen smartphones may seem like the most popular type of phone, but according a survey administered by Nokia's official blog, people still seem to prefer typing on a physical keyboard. The poll ...