Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. It’s incredible how much the keyboard market has expanded ...

You can use classic Mac keyboards and mice with a modern machine thanks to clever adapters and apps. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Apple’s modern keyboards are perfectly adequate but pretty ...

At seemingly every turn, Microsoft has been talking up the benefits of using Windows Hello, but what if you have an older PC that doesn't have any kind of fingerprint scanner or webcam built in?

Along with its newest Surface devices, the Surface Pro, and Surface Laptop, Microsoft added a number of new Surface-branded accessories that either stand alone or work with specific models. Now, there ...

Mechanical keyboards — in which every key uses an individual physical switch to send information to your computer rather than activating a contact on a membrane as in a modern laptop keyboard — have ...

Microsoft had a healthy mouse and keyboard division many years ago which paved the way for many modern advances. The original Sidewinder keyboards for example, solved key-rollover limitations for ...

Sarah is a freelance writer and CNET How To blogger. Her main focus is Windows, but she also covers everything from mobile tech to video games to DIY hardware projects. She likes to press buttons and ...

The Buckling Spring keyboard is one of the first keyboards ever released. In fact, it’s responsible for the layout of the modern keyboards we use today. But there are a lot of different opinions about ...

Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

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 ...

Sometimes the default just doesn't cut it, and that's often true when it comes to keyboards. Whether you're working on a desktop or a laptop, the keyboard you were given or the keyboard built into the ...

In June of 2012, Microsoft announced the first devices in its new Surface line, twin tablets to take on the ascendant iPad while simultaneously challenging the idea of what a tablet could be. And as ...