Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...

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 ...

If you're looking for a new way to add a touch of novelty and flair to documents and other content you post on the Web, look no further than your computer's QWERTY keyboard. While the keyboard may ...

Meet the 5-Tiles Keyboard, (yet) another contender taking aim at disrupting Qwerty — and hoping to increase its chances by first targeting smaller wearable devices, such as smartwatches. The rational ...

Have you ever looked down at your computer and wondered why we have QWERTY keyboards instead of alphabetical ones? Contrary to what it might seem, it isn't because someone threw a handful of Scrabble ...

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 ...

There are a growing number of wearable devices featuring a touchscreen, such as smart watches, smart glasses or digital jewellery. These devices can receive notifications in many forms but usually ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 19th century. Aren't there other arrangements better fit for the computer age? They vary from... QWERTY Traveled From Typewriter To iPhone, But ...

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.