Anyone who uses a smartphone will likely be familiar with NFC technology, which is used for such things as contactless payments, data sharing between devices and secure logins. To demonstrate the ...

Lacking the money to buy a piano, 11-year-old Andrew Garrido created his own paper piano to practise on. It got him through his first five grades with distinction. Now aged 21, the pianist and ...

Building a keyboard isn’t a big project these days. Controller chips and boards are readily available, switches are easy to find, and a 3D printer can do a lot of what used to be the hard parts. But ...

Keyboards have come a long way from the plastic dust traps of yesteryear. In just the past few months, we've seen virtual keyboards that project onto any surface and gloves that let users "type" in ...

Engineers at Purdue University have developed a printing process that can make any paper or cardboard function like a keypad. The team expects the new technology to transform paper sheets from a ...

Jon Porter is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. A Dutch “paper engineer” has managed to squeeze all ...

Chontay Smith taught himself how to play the piano — without a piano. The would-be ivory-tinkler was more than a decade into a 24-year bid, back in 2009 at Green Haven Correctional Facility in upstate ...