Input Origins
Monthly editorials exploring innovative, curious, and sometimes weird ways people interact with machines—past, present, and future.
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...
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...
