Input Origins
Monthly editorials exploring innovative, curious, and sometimes weird ways people interact with machines—past, present, and future.
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...
Input Origins: Talking to Machines - The Origins of Voice Control (#7)
From Edison’s Phonograph to Siri in Your Pocket IBM Shoebox (1961): The first voice-activated calculator, capable of recognizing 16 words...
Input Origins: BCI - Before Neuralink, there Was Cyberlink (#6)
Editor: Ariel Amar Welcome back to Input Origins, where we rewind through the wild evolution of how humans talk to...
Input Origins: Computer Vision (#5)
Editor: Ariel Amar This month, we’re dialing back to the moment computers learned to see. Welcome back to Input Origins,...
Input Origins: We’re Strapping on a Glove - But Not for Fashion (#4)
Editor: Ariel Amar Welcome to another chapter of Input Origins, where we rewind to the moments that changed how we interact...
Input Origins: The Mouse That Roared (#3)
Editor: Ariel Amar Welcome back to Input Origins, your monthly deep dive into the wild, weird, and wonderful world of...
Input Origins: From Stylus to Signals (#2)
Editor: Ariel Amar In 1964, the RAND Corporation introduced a groundbreaking innovation: the RAND Tablet, the world's first practical graphical...
