In his book “Shift Happens,” Marcin Wichary explains the innovations that turned the typewriter of 1873 into the keyboards of today. How many hours a day do you spend at a computer typing? Or staring ...

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 ...

What if your keyboard was filled with tiny screens that showed you exactly what any given press would do, each built into a crystal-clear key? The keys would morph and shift as you needed, ...