It doesn’t require the talent of Steve Jobs to read the zeitgeist and realize that retro is “in” right now. That’s certainly the trend driving German designer Nanoxia’s new Ncore Retro Keyboard, which ...

Folks who work from home know the seemingly never-ending struggle of purposely rearranging your workstation to keep things fresh. There are so many ways to spruce up your makeshift home office, from ...

The QwerkyToys Qwerkywriter is easily one of the best typewriter-inspired mechanical keyboards you can buy right now. It features a full aluminum body, high-quality typewriter-styled keycaps, clicky ...

Lofree is an attractive, sturdy keyboard, but it has a few quirks the may confound anyone used to the Apple keyboard. I’m not a fan of Apple keyboards. There’s nothing wrong with them technically. I ...

Redesigning an input device is a risky business. When Apple introduced its latest MacBooks, some users complained that the new butterfly mechanism in the keys was a turnoff. They criticized the ...

A set of input keys on a personal computer or computer terminal. Along with the standard letter keys on a typewriter, computer keyboards have keys for cursor movement and entering commands as outlined ...

For the last few decades, the computer keyboard has been seen as just another peripheral. There’s no need to buy a quality keyboard, conventional wisdom goes, because there’s no real difference ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...

Computer keyboards serve as the primary manual interfaces between users and systems, designed to bring ideas, commands and communications into the digital realm. Unless you dictate into a headset ...