Input Devices Stories

Brain Implant Cleared by America's FDA to Help Paralysis Patients 11
Apple Is Finally Sending Out Payments For Its Defective Macbook Butterfly Keyboards 26
8BitDo's Reimagining of IBM's Model-M Keyboard Draws Reactions Online 72
'Mycroft' Open-Source Voice Assistant Out of Funds, Can't Fulfill Remaining Kickstarter Rewards 46
The Origin of the Blinking Cursor 99
The Woman Who Mastered IBM's 5,400-character Chinese Typewriter 58
Is Computer History Also a History of Physical Pains? 61
IT'S INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY 62
Microsoft's New Windows Terminal Preview Offers a Retro CRT Screen Effect 53
Video Leaks From Samsung's 'Artificial Human' Avatar Project Neon 39
Building Your Own Open Source, Privacy-Protecting Voice Assistant With A Raspberry Pi 42
Microsoft's New Keyboards Have Dedicated Keys For 'Office' and Emojis 122
Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Caps Lock Key? 658
20 Years Ago, Microsoft Changed How We Mouse Forever' 267
Bluecherry Open Sources Its Entire Linux Surveillance Server 30
Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? 303
'Why I Use the IBM Model M Keyboard That's Older Than I Am' 220
We've Reached 'Peak Screen'. So What Comes Next? 100
Microsoft Re-Launches Its Classic 'IntelliMouse' 133
Mozilla Releases Open Source Speech Recognition Model, Massive Voice Dataset 58
Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard? 300
What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? 302
Clever Hack Fakes A Sleep Timer For Google Home 50
Meet The Next Major Operating System: Amazon's Alexa 168
Typing By Brain Arrives: No Surgery Necessary 93
A Game You Control With Your Mind 56
A New Sampling Algorithm Could Eliminate Sensor Saturation 135
Enthusiast Resurrects IBM's Legendary 'Model F' Keyboard 184
Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio 72
Computer Pioneer Harry Huskey Dies At Age 101 46
RIP, Robert Taylor, The Innovator Who Shaped Modern Computing 37
Google Glass Enters The Manufacturing Sector 61
Tech Billionaires Invest In Linking Brains To Computers 77
New 'Doom 3' Mod Successfully Ports It Into Virtual Reality 42
New Crowdfunding Campaign Offers Modular EOMA68 Computing Devices 122
Turn Your Android Phone Into a Laptop For $99 With the Superbook 126
Microsoft 'Patch' Blocks Linux Installs On Locked-Down Windows RT Computers 141
Pokemon Go Leads to Reckless Driving, Injuries, and A Corpse 130
Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 10,000% 80
Ingestible Medical Robots Could Remove Batteries From Stomachs 65
Lego Robots Crack Gesture-Based Security 13
VR Tested by NFL To Confront Sexism and Racism 178
Snapchat Reportedly Acquires Bitmoji Maker Bitstrips For $100 Million 33
Google Opens Access To Its Speech Recognition API, Going Head To Head With Nuance 46
US Army Creates Virtual Reality Dome To Assess Soldier Thinking During Combat 35
Oculus Co-Founder's New Venture: Long-Range Virtual Reality Tracking System 15
First Bionic Fingertip Implant Delivers Sensational Results 26
A Phone App Helps Day Laborers Attack Wage Theft 101
Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons 82
Sony Patents Power Glove-Like Motion Controller For PlayStation VR 44
HoloLens For Developers Available For Pre-Order 58
Backdoor In MVPower DVR Firmware Sends CCTV Stills To an Email Address In China 60
Report: Google Will Go In Big For VR Hardware This Year 51
Let Your Pupils Do the Typing 49
Push To Hack: Reverse Engineering an IP Camera 35
Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? 148
Low-Cost EEG Head-Sets Promise Virtual Reality Feedback Loops 35
Microsoft To Acquire SwiftKey Predictive Keyboard Technology Company For $250M 118
Jailbreak Turns Cheap Walkie-Talkie Into DMR Police Scanner 82
France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists 315
Cheap Web Cams Can Open Permanent, Difficult-To-Spot Backdoors Into Networks 77
Lenovo To Build Google's First Project Tango Phone 48
Api.ai CEO Ilya Gelfenbeyn Talks About Conversational Voice Interfaces (Video) 32
Rail Gun Controller Lets You Pack the Heat of Your Air Soft Gun In Any FPS Game 44
Four Factors That Will Push VR Forward in 2016 64
Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning? 122
Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer 78
How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? 69
Nokia's $60,000 Virtual Reality Camera Goes On a Drone Test Flight 24
Telemedicine: The State of Telepresence In Healthcare 34
Silent Ear and Tongue-Tracking Tech Can Control Wearables 10
Adding Eye Control To Wheelchairs for Quadriplegics 15
737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet 366
Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware 100
BadBarcode Attack Forces Host System To Carry Out Commands 79
Bluetooth 2016 Roadmap Brings Fourfold Range Increase and Mesh Networking 29
In Ireland, All RC and Drones Over 1kg To Be Registered 108
Lytro Announces World's First Light Field VR Camera 30
Deja Vu: Microsoft's 2015 Surface Book Ad and Apple's 2014 'Your Verse' iPad Ad 71
Google Drops Desktop Voice Search In Chrome 51
ALS Patients Use a Brain Implant To Type 6 Words Per Minute 26
1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds 146
Pokemon Go: What Nintendo Needs To Learn From Ingress 61
Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant 201
Using a Smartphone As a Virtual Reality Controller 13
Ask Slashdot: Synchronizing Sound With Video, Using Open Source? 103
World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light 89
Modular Touchpad Aims To Replace Most Input Devices 76
Microsoft Researchers Generate 3D Models From Ordinary Smartphones 48
Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands 99
Cheap Thermal Imagers Can Steal User PINs 101
Ask Slashdot: Do You Press "6" Key With Right Or Left Hand? 240
Apple Testing Service That Allows Siri to Answer Calls and Transcribe Voicemail 70
Nokia Announces OZO 360-Degree Camera For Filming Virtual Reality 23
Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? 698
Disney Bans Selfie Sticks 177
iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch 191
Microsoft Announces Customizable Xbox Elite Wireless Controller 99
Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 127
Logitech Introduces G29, G920 Racing Wheels For PS3, PS4, Xbox One and PC 67
Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition 235
Blackberry Defeats Typo In Court, Typo To Discontinue Sales of Keyboard 67
China Unveils World's First Facial Recognition ATM 129
Mechanical 'Clicky' Keyboards Still Have Followers (Video) 147
The Challenge of Getting a Usable QWERTY Keyboard Onto a Dime-sized Screen 144
How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text 164
Microsoft Announces Windows Holographic Platform 99
Linux 4.1 Bringing Many Changes, But No KDBUS 232
Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible 74
Google Adds Handwriting Input To Android 124
Recon Instruments' Sports-Oriented Smart Glasses Now Shipping 25
MIT Researchers Develop Wireless Trackpad For Your Thumbnail 19
Researchers Design a Self-Powered Digital Camera 85
Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype 140
Kinect For Windows Is Dead; Long Live Kinect For Windows Via USB 45
Control Anything With Gestures: Myo Bluetooth Protocol Released 15
What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? 199
Google, Developers Demo Impressive Gaming and VR Apps For Project Tango Tablet 15
Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? 452
Austin Declared a Drone-Free Zone During SXSW 46
A Versatile and Rugged MIDI Mini-Keyboard (Video) 56
Breakthrough In Face Recognition Software 142
Mountain Biking In Virtual Reality With the Oculus Rift and an Actuating Bike 71
Building the Developer's Dream Keyboard 146
The Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition 83
Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? 96
What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? 422
Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes 84
The Algorithm That 'Sees' Beauty In Photographic Portraits 76
Listnr Wants to be 'Your Listening Assistant' (Video) 45
VP Anthony Moschella Shows Off Makerbot's Latest Printers and Materials (Video) 47
Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? 431
Your Entire PC In a Mouse 165
The Fixes Sony's DualShock 4 Controller Still Needs 59
Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost 192
Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking 199
Nintendo Power Glove Used To Create 'Robot Chicken' 40
Ask Slashdot: What Tablet and Software For a Partially Sighted Person? 63
Apple Awarded Gesture-Control Patent 105
Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? 210
Know Your Type: Five Mechanical Keyboards Compared 190
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review 75
"Infrared Curtain" Brings Touchscreen Technology To Cheap Cars 123
Stephen Hawking's New Speech System Is Free and Open-source 56
Samsung Shows 'Eye Mouse' For People With Disabilities 17
US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition 62
For Some Would-Be Google Glass Buyers and Devs, Delays May Mean Giving Up 154
Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming 265
Amazon's Echo: a $200, Multi-Function, Audio-Centric Device 129
Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own 172
Apple's Next Hit Could Be a Microsoft Surface Pro Clone 252
Microsoft Develops Analog Keyboard For Wearables, Solves Small Display Dilemma 100
Oculus Hiring Programmers, Hardware Engineers, and More For VR Research Division 16
Axiom Open Source Camera Handily Tops 100,000 Euro Fundraising Goal 31
Reverse Engineering the Oculus Rift DK2's Positional Tracking Tech 26
The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made 304
From the Maker of Arduboy: Tetris On a Bracelet 15
John Carmack's Oculus Connect Keynote Probably Had Samsung Cringing 88
Vrvana's Totem HMD Puts a Camera Over Each Eye 25
Video Released, Crowdfunding Underway For Axiom Open Source Cinema Camera 52
Oculus Rift CEO Says Classrooms of the Future Will Be In VR Goggles 182
The Challenges and Threats of Automated Lip Reading 120
Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology 41
A Better Way To Make Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Limbs 28
Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding 126
Type 225 Words per Minute with a Stenographic Keyboard (Video) 109
Microsoft Research Brings Kinect-Style Depth Perception to Ordinary Cameras 31
Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience 109
Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe) 81
Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? 194
"BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" 205
Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? 544
Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App 41
Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3D Virtual Reality Worlds 65
Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing 198
Tom's Hardware: Microsoft Smartband Coming In October With 11 Sensors 70
Programming On a Piano Keyboard 57
Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower 174
Ford's Bringing Adaptive Steering To the Masses 128
German Scientists Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Flight Simulator 73
Valve's Steam Machines Delayed, Won't Be Coming In 2014 134
Hands-On With Sony's VR Headset 46
Google Rumored To Be Making 3D-Scanning Tablets 55
Microsoft Finally Selling Xbox One Without Kinect 227
Some Users Find Swype Keyboard App Makes 4000+ Location Requests Per Day 191
Google's New Camera App Simulates Shallow Depth of Field 127
For $20, Build a VR Headset For Your Smartphone 50
Princeton Students Develop Open Source Voice Control Platform For Any Device 34
Apple Patent Could Herald Interchangeable iPhone Camera Lenses 160
Contact Lenses With Infrared Vision? 99
Camera Module Problems May Delay Samsung's Galaxy S5 70
Steam Controller Drops Touchscreen 84
New VR Game Makes You a "Hollywood Hacker" 38
Samsung Galaxy Glass Patent Plans To Turn Fingers Into a Keyboard 63
Gesture Recognition Without Batteries 22
Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass 921
Google Fighting Distracted Driver Laws 226
Lechal Haptic Footwear Guides You By Buzzing Your Feet 26
Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass? 421
Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect 222
GameFace: Making a Virtual Reality Android Headset 14
A New Car UI 237
The Road To VR 61
Ask Slashdot: E-ink Reader For Academic Papers? 134
30 Minutes Inside Valve's Prototype Virtual Reality Headset 59
ChipSiP Smart Glass Specs Better Than Google Glass? 129
Sniffing and Decoding NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE Packets For Under $30 46
Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse 459
I Became a Robot With Google Glass 134
Steam Controller Hands-on 138
Eye Tracking Coming To Video Games 102
A Big Step Forward In Air Display and Interface Tech 65
Throwable 36-Camera Ball Nearly Ready To Toss 68
How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up 371
Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating 299
Create Your Own Bullet Time Camera Rig With Raspberry Pi 88
New Fujitsu Laptop Reads Your Palm, For Security 107
Google Launches Voice Search Hotword Extension For Chrome 54
Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements 149
New Smart Glasses Allow Nurses To See Veins Through Skin 124
Xbox One Controller Cost Over $100 Million To Develop 206
Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense 81
Dell's New Sputnik 3 Mates Touchscreen With Ubuntu 166
Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature 77
Google Halts Sales of HP's USB-Charging Chromebook 11 Over Overheating 57
Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix 326
Mind Control In Virtual Reality, Circa 2013 35
Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket 638
Patent Filing Reveals Samsung's Designs For Google Glass Competitor 39
IZON IP Cameras Riddled With Security Flaws 55
USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware 273
Advances In Cinema Tech Overcoming a Strange Racial Divide 164
For Playstation 4 Owners, Bad News On USB, Bluetooth Headsets 292
MIT Develops "Kinect of the Future" 76
The Game Controllers That Shaped the Way We Play 103
Valve Shows How Steam Controller Works In Real Life 139
Researchers Create Mid-Air Haptic Feedback System For Touch Displays 62
Microsoft Exec Says Xbox One Kinect Is Not Built For Advertising 75
Captain Cyborg Is Back! Kevin Warwick Predicts the Future 57
The Difference Between Film and Digital Photography (Video) 182
What Valve's Announcements Mean for Gaming 182
Valve Announces Steam Controller 317
Microsoft Shows Off Its Vision For Gesture-Controlled PCs 139
Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake 665
Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long 729
Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More 171
CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken 481
Another British Bank Hit By KVM Crooks 75
Work Halted On Neal Stephenson's Kickstarted Swordfighting Video Game 124
Crooks Arrested Over KVM-Based Bank Heist Attempt 79

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