A few years back I was at a convention somewhere and I stumbled into Palm's booth. They were showcasing a small half-qwerty keyboard. I was instantly in love, but didn't have the $$$ to drop on ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout was invented in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes to prevent typewriter keys from jamming. It remains the most widely used keyboard layout today. Representative Image ...

If you find you are all fingers and thumbs when it comes to typing on a touch-screen device, then help may be at hand. A team including Scots researchers have reimagined the old QWERTY layout – a ...

A new keyboard for tablet computers promises to speed up typing by a third - by ditching the traditional QWERTY layout. Researchers at St Andrews University and Germany's Max Planck institute used ...

The intriguing Minuum isn't the only keyboard looking to change the way we type on touchscreens after two scientists claimed to have created a keyboard for tablets that is faster than the regular ...

Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

Many of us use keyboards all the time — on our computers at work, or typing out a text or email on our phones. But why does the common QWERTY keyboard, named for the first six letters in the top-left ...

Typing on TVs is something that pretty much everyone hates. Clicking half a dozen times between letter is infuriating, and it’s only made worse when you have a poor keyboard layout. When Google ...

Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard's layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and ...

Answers often lie in strange places. I have long hated the QWERTY keyboard. Designed more than 150 years ago to slow human input via the frail mechanicals of the typewriter, it is a dinosaur ...