keyboards

A Compact Semi-Portable Keyboard With Genuine Mechanical Keys

There’s just nothing quite like the sound and feel of typing away on a keyboard with genuine mechanical switches under each key. But while most mechanical keyboards are giant and designed to permanently live on your desk, the TEX Yoda has a much smaller form factor and footprint making it easier to travel with so…

Your Keyboard Could Tell If You Have Parkinson’s

An everyday technology is becoming the central figure in how scientists understand and diagnose Parkinson’s—the keyboard. Researchers at MIT are working on a method that would create keyboards that could actually tell whether you have this unfortunately common neuron impairment. It’s all mechanical—no apps or special software required. All the information is hidden in the…

The Perfect Android Keyboard for Just Barely Keeping in Touch

Cool. Nice. Damn. lollollollollollollollollol. ⊙_⊙ oh, hmm. ⊙﹏⊙. K, thks ツ ❤ [lel, nice] An earlier version of this story erroneously referred to a lel as a lol. Gizmodo regrets the errror.

Blackberry Is Bringing Back the Slider Phone Because Sure Why Not

When square phones don’t quite work and suing Ryan Seacrest is taking too long, what’s a BlackBerry to do? Combine the weirdest new hardware trend and a classic old one together in one super (silly?) smartphone. Blackberry just teasedthe new “dual-curved, all-touch display with a keyboard—yes a slider device!” at this years Mobile World Congress.…

Microsoft’s Folding Keyboard for iOS and Android Is a Razor-Thin Beauty

Imagine a keyboard that you can carry around like a wallet—almost as thin as paper, just a few millimeters—and that works with any smartphone or tablet, be it Android, iOS or Windows Phone. This is exactly what Microsoft’s new fold-able keyboard is, a little beauty for those who really miss physical keyboards on the go.…

Review: This Laptop With a Mechanical Keyboard Is Delightfully Crazy

I’m typing this on a laptop with a real keyboard. Real, as in without the compromise in size, tactility or function that you’ve come to expect in laptops. I don’t really know how to express how strange that is. Imagine your laptop was outfitted with the same high-quality typewriter you use at your desktop—an 87-key…

This Mechanical Keyboard Is Secretly An Android Computer

Your keyboard is boring—it doesn’t do anything special or unique. You could change that: some crazy bastards in China have built a keyboard that’s secretly a quad-core Android PC. This thing is like a supercharged version of the Commodore 64: a keyboard with a power cable, USB plugs and an HDMI port. Plop it down…

I Can’t Stop Buying Ridiculous Keyboards

Your keyboard is boring—completely practical, functional, useful even, but also awful, boring and stupid. You just don’t know it yet. I learned about boring keyboards in college, when a nasty case of carpel tunnel syndrome threatened to silence my fingers forever. Then, one day, my father lent me a ridiculous vertical keyboard that changed how…

Smart Keyboard That Knows Who’s Typing Could Make Passwords Stronger

If you’ve ever worked in an office with someone who types like a jackhammer, it’s obvious we all type a little differently. Now scientists have created a prototype of a keyboard that can identify users by their unique typing patterns. It could point to a next generation of passwords that don’t just take into account…

The Morphing E-Ink Keyboard May (Almost) Finally Be Here

Those of us who are terrible at memorizing keyboard shortcuts dream of a day when we don’t have to keep a reference card handy for Photoshop or Office. And while they’ve been teased before, it looks like we might finally be able to buy, or at least pre-order, an E Ink keyboard with keys that…

Stephen Hawking’s New Speech System Has SwiftKey Suggestions

Stephen Hawking’s famous computer-generated speech system just got a whole lot better. Intel redesigned the software he’s been using to pick out his words for almost 20 years, and the new version comes complete with SwiftKey predictions. Previously, Hawking’s speech system was able to predict some characters here and there, but now with SwiftKey’s algorithms…

You Can Almost Finally Buy That Keyboard-Shaped Waffle Maker

It first graced the Gizmodo front page way back in 2007, but finally, seven years after we all first really wanted one for ourselves, that keyboard-shaped waffle maker could really be yours. Assuming, of course, its creator’s $50,000 Kickstarter campaign reaches its funding goal—so close, but yet still so far. Like Chris Dimino’s original design,…

No One Needs a One-Button Hashtag Key But I Want It Anyway

Are you sick and tired of hitting two keys before each and every hashtag? Have you lost hours at work hunting down the # on your keyboard? Has your pinky been injured from awkward shifting positions? No? Me neither. But isn’t this little hashtag keyboard cuuuuuuuute? HashKey is an idea for a tiny one-key keyboard…

You Can Actually Play a Game Of Snake On This Hacked Backlit Keyboard

If Solitaire and Minesweeper have been stripped from all the computers at work but you’re still after a discreet way to kill a few minutes, you owe a debt of gratitude to Jeroen Domburg who successfully hacked a backlit Coolermaster QuickFire Rapid-I mechanical keyboard to play the classic game of Snake—which you might remember from…

Swype for iOS 8 just got updated to understand 16 new languages and suggest emoji—but it’ll cost you $1.

A Keyboard With Letters Replaced By Pokemon Has You Now Catching Typos

You don’t necessarily have to be a touch typist to use this custom keyboard created by Ingrid Pierre, but if you’re not you will need to know the names of the most popular Pokemon since the letters on the 26 alphabet keys have all been replaced by their correspondingly-named pocket monsters. You’ve got Pikachu sitting…

Why Everyone Wants to Kill the Mouse and Keyboard

In the past few decades, everything about our computers have changed. The screens. The guts. The size, weight, and materials. The software itself, of course. But one thing has stayed exactly the same, frozen in time from the early days: The tools we use to tell them what to do. So it’s odd that we’re…

Logitech’s New iPad Keyboard Hides Mechanical Keys in a Spillproof Skin

Cleaning up after a spill is made even worse when your toppled drink also destroys your keyboard. So it looks like Logitech has removed the waterproof keyboard from its iPad cases and turned it into a standalone wireless unit, called the Keys-To-Go, that’s designed to work with your iOS devices, Apple TV, and of course…

I Built a Keyboard from Scratch

I made a keyboard – let me tell you about it! I’m even typing this post using the keyboard I built. How meta. This has been a fairly involved process so there is a lot to discuss. The main goal of this post is to talk people through the things I went through and what…

The 1,300-Person Quest To Build the Perfect Mechanical Keyboard

The keyboard is functionally invisible. It’s the single piece of hardware you touch the most. But despite being your primary interface with the digital world, it’s remained almost unchanged for decades, ignored, except for the small community of enthusiasts who design, program, and build their own—like the Infinity Keyboard, a new mechanical keyboard that a…