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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're the type who rips new gadgets right out of the package and expects to toss aside the instructions and begin playing with your toy right away, well, you might want to move along, because the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 picture above has been cropped and distorted beyond recognition, but even in its normal format, it's still rather hideous. You see a problem many PC gamers face is using a keyboard with too many ...