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 ...

For months, Luke Bassett had been searching for a particular hard-to-find item, whose market value he estimated at a thousand dollars. He found a collector who was willing to sell him two, for a total ...

A keyboard can be a sorely underappreciated part of your computing kit. While a rig can have all manner of sophisticated components under the hood, and mechanical keyboards with gamer-friendly key ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reviews editor who’s been testing tech since 2007. Previously at Wirecutter and Maximum PC. Current ...

In the eight and a bit years since the first model launched, the Raspberry Pi has traditionally been sold as a modular computer. You buy the board separately, attach your own peripherals, insert an SD ...

While going through a full, cleaning sweep of my home office—something I know I’m not alone in doing lately—I had to blow dust off quite a few forgotten items. At my house, this included a range of ...

The Cooler Master SK621 keyboard is a solid keyboard with great typing feel, but it takes time to get acclimated to the modified key layout. With its luxe design, multi-colored backlighting effects, ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...