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 ...

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 ...

Chances are good you’ve noticed the row of numbered keys across the top of your computer keyboard that all have an “F” in front of them, but they may not get much use. If you’re using a laptop, they ...

Press a few buttons, and you can accomplish hundreds of computer tasks, from simple to sophisticated, without taking your ...

Out-of-date computer peripherals are often consigned to a dusty drawer and forgotten. Why not upcycle those old keyboards and ...

1984 was a landmark year in computing. It was the debut year of the Macintosh, of course, but it also spawned another piece of timeless computer hardware: the IBM Model M keyboard, which Matt Neuburg ...