Long before touchscreens and autocorrect, a nineteenth-century inventor named Christopher Latham Sholes made a series of ...

The QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the 1870s – and has stayed around ever since. Today, QWERTY's widespread adoption and legacy ensure its dominance, even in the face of ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s the work of Marcin Wichary, a Polish designer based in Chicago who’s been blogging about keyboards for years ...

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Computers are designed top-to-bottom for Latin-language users, but this one-size-fits-all thinking has created decades of difficulty for the rest of the world—particularly China. This story first ...

I loved QWERTY keyboard phones. Some of the first smartphones I ever owned featured them, like the HTC Apache and Motorola Q. With the original iPhone’s announcement in 2007, however, Steve Jobs used ...

There used to be many phones with a keyboard, but now it's just a few, and they aren't exactly great. We have an awesome ...