For over a hundred years, good typists didn’t ‘hunt and peck’ but instead relied on keeping their fingers on the home row. This technique relies on physical buttons, but with on-screen keyboards used ...

For the touch typist, the tablet and smartphone experience is often a frustrating one. While it is possible to key in characters without looking at the virtual keyboard, efficiency and accuracy are a ...

In December 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart introduced the world to two brand-new computer peripherals of his own invention.The first was his invention, the computer mouse-- which, as you're well aware, ...

The resurrection of the Apple Tablet rumours got me thinking.<BR>If they are to be believed then the screen will be just shy of ten inches. That means a sizeable virtual keyboard.<BR>But virtual ...

As smartphone screens have grown, using their on-screen keyboards with one hand has become problematic for anyone without lanky digits. Dougie Mann’s TypeCase might be the solution. It’s a smartphone ...

A chorded keyboard from Infogrip, Ventura, California for people able to use only one hand. Invented in 1986 and brought to market in 1991, the Bat keys are pressed in combination like piano chords, ...

A keyboard with a small number of keys that generates a letter or word based on the combination of keys pressed at the same time, similar to piano chords. Dating back to the mid-1800s, the first ...