Input Origins
Monthly editorials exploring innovative, curious, and sometimes weird ways people interact with machines—past, present, and future.
Input Origins: the Trackball (#15)
Welcome back to Input Origins - your monthly time machine through the evolution of control! And this time, we're rolling...
Input Origins: Gun Company Standardized Your Keyboard's Layout (#14)
This month, we're spotlighting the most widely used input device in human history, the Keyboard! The very tool on which...
Input Origins: Touch Your Screen (#13)
Welcome back to Input Origins - and guess what? We just wrapped up our first full year of time-traveling through...
Input Origins: The Interface You Were Born With (#12)
One year ago, we launched Input Origins with a simple mission: to trace the story of how humans have interacted...
Input Origins: Two Input Paradigms That Controlled Everything are Merging (#11)
Every major input device = same two paradigms Just Two Simple Ideas Welcome back to Input Origins! Our monthly dive...
Input Origins: Gamepad - Most Iconic Input method of Them All (#10)
[1969 The first documented Video of a Ping-Pong game] Welcome back to Input Origins - 10th edition. This time, we're...
Input Origins: The Joystick - How a 1908 Invention Launched 3D Interaction (#9)
A Spatial Kind Of Stick [The 1977 Atari CX40 Joystick] Welcome to the 9th edition of Input Origins! In this...
Input Origins: IMU - From B-29 Bombers to Your Gamepad (#8)
It's Input Origins time! our monthly dive into the creative ways we’ve interacted with machines. This month: how a bomber-guiding sensor became the...
