If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I was confused when I first saw the Vensmile K8. It looks like another flexible keyboard, and those ...

Razer’s rubber-dome/mechanical hybrid switch is more psychological trickery than an actual revolution, but it’s trickery that somehow works. Rubber-dome keyboards ...

If rubber dome keyboards are at the bottom of the keyboard hierarchy and mechanicals near the top, where does that leave Topre’s electrostatic capacitive switches, which combine a rubber dome and a ...

Scientists at the University of Auckland have developed a soft, flexible, stretchable keyboard using a type of rubber known as a dielectric elastomer. The results are reported today, 25th November ...

(1) Most QWERTY computer keyboards use a single rubber-like membrane underneath the keys that makes contact with a circuit board when the key is fully depressed. Also called a "dome switch keyboard," ...

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...