Imagine yourself as a single cap on a keyboard. Perhaps you’re an oft-used letter like “A” or instead the lonely, remote “~” key. If you’re one of the former, you wince every time that giant hand ...

These days, caps lock’s main purpose is to make people furious whenever they mistakenly hit it. The key is so unused, in fact, there have been calls for its removal (Google doesn’t even include it on ...

Is it a key-cap or a keycap cap? We here at Ars are having trouble nailing down the terminology for this cephalic peripheral. But whatever it’s called, Google Japan’s latest DIY project is for people ...

I can’t stand the new lowercase keyboard in iOS 9. It’s a fairly useless change to begin with, as it doesn’t make anything easier. Sure, it shows whether you’ve pressed the Shift key or not, but the ...

Losing the spinning hard drive from its Chrome OS laptops is one thing, but the news that Google would jettison the caps-lock key from its upcoming notebooks REALLY got the tech world in a twist. "We ...

A keyboard key that toggles upper case on and off. When the Caps Lock key is on, pressing any key automatically delivers the shifted version of the key, except for numeric digits, periods, commas, ...

Time for a mid-week grab-bag of Mac 911 updates—comments and suggestions from readers about past Mac 911 issues. Reader Don Smith wonders about the orange key caps that appear in a screenshot from a ...

The Qwerkywriter S is a stylish, smooth-typing mechanical keyboard that'd be a cinch to recommend, were it not for a number of quirks. When typing is a large part of how you make a living, the muscle ...