Whether you spend your days typing away at home or in the office, it can become frustrating to deal with sticky keys or loud keyboards. Although typewriters are essentially a thing of the past, ...

It doesn’t require the talent of Steve Jobs to read the zeitgeist and realize that retro is “in” right now. That’s certainly the trend driving German designer Nanoxia’s new Ncore Retro Keyboard, which ...

You love the look and feel of old typewriters, but don't want to give up the comforts of modern technology. Meld the two with the Qwerkywriter keyboard. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

Here is a full conversion of a typewriter into a computer keyboard. There’s actually something more nefarious at work here. Since you can still use the typewriter normally after the mod, Erik has ...

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.

00:01, Mon, Oct 9, 2017 Updated: 09:09, Mon, Oct 9, 2017 And it was, almost. Die-hard fans continued to clack-clack away at their beloved machines, unmoved by the seductive overtures of the laptop.

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 ...

Sholes and Glidden gussied up an early model with floral ornaments, in imitation of sewing machines. Alamy In 1866, Christopher Latham Sholes, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher and former state senator, ...