Today's trivia question: Why are the letters on a computer keyboard arranged in such a strange order? The 21st century keyboard is based on 19th century technology. When the computer's ancestor, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For all the talk of how technology is changing education, here’s a question that doesn’t get asked much: Are kids losing touch with the alphabet? There was a time when grade schoolers spent a whole ...

Look down at your keyboard. Are most of the letters in your name on the left or the right side of the tray? The answer could affect how people respond to your name. New research suggests people have ...

Keyboards featuring the letters from the Klingon alphabet have gone on sale in Britain. Designed for Star Trek fans who have learned to speak and write in the alien language, they are priced £43.99.

Tsubasa Yumura, a computer science researcher in Japan, rigged up a keyboard that looks like it launches letters into the computer when they're pressed. It uses a technique called projection mapping.

A set of input keys on a personal computer or computer terminal. Along with the standard letter keys on a typewriter, computer keyboards have keys for cursor movement and entering commands as outlined ...