One year ago, American couple Jennifer and Nelson Felix discovered a peculiar typewriter in boxes cleared out from Jennifer’s late father’s Arizona basement. The characters on its keys appeared to be ...

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 ...

Heads and shoulders better than anything that Windows or Linux have ever come up with. It all has to do with the magic trackpad and the sheer size of it. For Japanese, hand-scrawling is always going ...