Most of the keyboards we're familiar with are actually rather complicated pieces of hardware, usually invlolving springs and wiring for dozens of keys, but scientists at the University of Auckland in ...

Despite writing over 1,200 words in his product's description, inventor Cliff Thier doesn't once describe how it actually works. No matter. With a little sleuthing, we see that his iKeyboard is quite ...

"Imagine a world where you drop something, and it bounces back without any damage" says Daniel Xu, an author of the paper. "That's the benefit of these rubber devices that can flex and stretch." The ...

Scientists have developed a soft, flexible and stretchable keyboard using a type of rubber known as a dielectric elastomer that can be wrapped around any object. Scientists have developed a soft, ...

The Touchfire snaps right into place, every time. The Touchfire is a weird little gadget, a silicone skin which covers your iPad’s touchscreen keyboard with a floppy membrane that partially simulates ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I was confused when I first saw the Vensmile K8. It looks like another flexible keyboard, and those ...

Joy of joys! If you’re awfully fond of rubber duckies, now they can follow you out of the bathtub and onto your keyboard. Add just one Duckeys keycap to your favorite key or go ahead and swap out the ...

You might wonder why you should spend more than $100 in order to purchase a mechanical keyword, when you can simply buy a basic keyboard for just $20. In fact, you would think that a keyboard is just ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. If rubber dome keyboards are at the bottom of the keyboard hierarchy and mechanicals near the top, where does that leave Topre’s electrostatic ...