Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

The ESP32 family are the microcontrollers which just keep on giving, as new versions keep them up-to-date and plenty of hackers come up with new things for them. A popular device is a general purpose ...

Tap is a one-handed gadget that fits over your fingers like rubbery brass knuckles and connects wirelessly to your smartphone. It’s supposed to free you from clunky physical keyboards and act as a ...

The AYANEO Flip 1S KB is an upcoming handheld gaming PC with a clamshell design that makes it look a bit like a mini laptop. When you lift the lid you’re greeted by a 7 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel OLED ...

Independent hardware developer [bobricius] is at it again, making what he claims is the world’s first Pico RP2040 QWERTY + IPS development kit — the PICOmputer. This is a palm-sized computer of sorts.

On a bright fall morning at Stanford, Tom Mullaney is telling me what’s wrong with QWERTY keyboards. Mullaney is not a technologist, nor is he one of those Dvorak keyboard enthusiasts. He’s a ...

ATLANTA — With many people still working from home, computers and their seemingly random keyboard design will no doubt be a popular gift this Christmas. Beginning with the first typewriters in the ...

Excerpted from New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything, written by Graham Lawton and illustrated by Jennifer Daniel. Technology often contributes new words to the English language: television ...