The physical QWERTY keyboard may have died out elsewhere but it's a central part of BlackBerry's legacy and is a feature on its new phone, dubbed the Mercury. Here's one of the keyboards on the ...

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Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

It's long been thought that how a word sounds -- it's very phonemes -- can be related in some ways to what that word means. But language is no longer solely oral. Much of our word production happens ...

In 1936, August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, patented an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard, the standard keyboard used all over the world ...

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Since on-screen keyboards have become significantly easier to work with, most phones leave out the physical keyboard. For improved productivity, however, sometimes you need hard buttons to make typing ...

Look down from the screen on which you are reading this, and wonder. Q-W-E-R-T-Y. How on earth did this pattern of letters get so locked into our language? It seems so random. Patchily alphabetic, and ...

Take a look at your keyboard for a second. Notice how the letters jump around like a secret code — Q, W, E, R, T, Y. It is not alphabetical, not symmetrical, and definitely not simple. Yet every one ...