History | Updated: February 25, 2025 | Originally Published: May 3, 2013 The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate. Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, ...

ATLANTA — With many people still working from home, computers and their seemingly random keyboard design will no doubt be a popular gift this Christmas. Beginning with the first typewriters in the ...

The first time I heard the lie, I was in fifth grade. Mr. Ward took me aside (or maybe he told the whole class, it was a long time ago) to tell me about the wonders of Dvorak, a different keyboard ...

August 27, 2007 The name Christopher Sholes probably doesn’t ring a bell in the mind of the average person, but if they knew of his contribution to modern technology they might well wish to throttle ...

It's rare these days to see anyone pounding away on an old manual Royal or Smith-Corona. But one element of those machines lives on, and is used constantly in daily life. Just as Milwaukee is the ...

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 ...

A retired pianist turned inventor has come up with what he claims is a revolutionary design of keyboard with which he hopes to supplant the QWERTY standard - and in doing so boost typing speeds up to ...

Excerpted from New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything, written by Graham Lawton and illustrated by Jennifer Daniel. Technology often contributes new words to the English language: television ...

Fossil fuel energy production and consumption technologies contribute to human-induced climate change and is one of our generation’s biggest problem. As such, it is only logical for the world to move ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It should be not too shocking that Nokia will produce numerous styled devices for Windows Phones- ...