For as long as personal computers have existed, keyboards have been the preferred means of man-to-machine interfacing. It may not be as grandiose as panel touch screens or motion sensors, but you just ...

Mechanical keyboards — in which every key uses an individual physical switch to send information to your computer rather than activating a contact on a membrane as in a modern laptop keyboard — have ...

Perhaps I type improperly, but I haven't used my pinky finger to type a single letter in this entire sentence on a QWERTY layout keyboard. As best I can tell, this is the same position as the "L" on ...

The K15 Max from Keychron has an Alice layout which spilts the keys into two halves and positions them in a wave. Have you ever suffered from RSI caused by typing? I have! It’s an occupational hazard ...

After giving it some thought, I decided to ditch my number pad computer keyboard for good (and I don't regret my decision in ...

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Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

"Fingers on the home row!" Those words were drilled into us every single day in basic keyboarding class in high school. What is the "home row," you may wonder? Well, knowing the "home row" is the ...

Robust construction. Gasket-mount assembly with flex-cut PCB. Hot-swap sockets for easy customization. Unique styling. Strange layout choices. Some default key combinations don’t work. Poor ...