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 ...

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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.

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Minimal Phone, a smartphone featuring an E-Ink display and a Blackberry-like physical QWERTY keyboard, has officially begun shipping after surpassing its crowdfunding goal. Initially introduced last ...

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do Mozart, or score the winning goal in the next World Cup final, perhaps? In a ...

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 ...

DecaTxt is a handheld mobile text input device that's logical and fairly simple. Just don't expect to master it quickly. Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and ...

Let's start with what E-Ten's latest Glofiish-- the X800 -- doesn't have: a QWERTY keyboard. Otherwise, it's packed to the, uh, gills. We're talking Windows Mobile 6, large VGA display, HSDPA/WCDMA ...

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 ...