You can use an old rotary telephone dialer in conjunction with your microcontroller to implement all sorts of things; for example, you could use it to enter a series of numbers to unlock a safe. You ...

There’s a meme which may have a basis in truth, of a teenager left clueless when presented with a rotary telephone. The dial, in reality a mechanical pulse chain generator, was once ubiquitous enough ...

We’re not sure about the rest of you, but to us, a keyboard without a number pad all the way over to the right just seems kind of — naked? We might not be accountants, but there’s something comforting ...

Google Japan released the Gboard Dial Version, an experimental rotary keyboard that uses multiple dials for text input. The functional design is an open-source project, with full 3D printing and ...

Through the looking glass: This concept keyboard would likely slow down anyone accustomed to conventional typing. However, its open-source plans ensure the project can live on among hobbyists ...

Google Japan has a long history of announcing humorous new keyboard ideas. Last year the team brought us an infinitely curving Mobius strip keyboard. This year we’re going back to the days of rotary ...