In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure. Although modern keyboards have little ...

Answers often lie in strange places. I have long hated the QWERTY keyboard. Designed more than 150 years ago to slow human input via the frail mechanicals of the typewriter, it is a dinosaur ...

This is more a thought experiment than anything as I'm not about to tear into my $100 alphagrip just to rig it up as a wireless device, although I guess this would be possible without actually even ...

It must be galling for all the smartphone and UMPC manufacturers who have tried so desperately to slim their products down into wafer-thin tablets, when actually what's needed is a huge, ergonomically ...

Sure we'd love a way to free our hands from the endless keyboard to mouse cycle, but this AlphaGrip AG-5 "game controller on steroids" doesn't seem to be exactly the solution we were looking for. They ...

You may recognize Alphagrip from their bizarre line of handheld keyboard/trackball mouse hybrid controllers—but by the looks of their entry into Microsoft’s Next Gen PC design competition, it appears ...

You never really know what you're going to get when peering through entries in Microsoft's Next-Gen PC Design Competition, and the above pictured device is definitely evidence of that. The AlphaGrip ...

Despite having quite a headache and approximately $400 worth of drink tickets on my desk, I yet post. And about really fun stuff, too. This little gem is the AlphaGrip Handheld Computer. Esoteric name ...

Is the AlphaGrip a controller? Nope - it’s a keyboard. The standard QWERTY keyboard layout we have today was invented in 1874, due to the high rate of mechanical failure of manual typewriters when the ...

The AlphaGrip computer keyboard is designed to minimize finger movement for faster and more comfortable typing. Ten-finger control also allows for high-speed computer gaming. The AlphaGrip AG-5 is a ...