http://www.gizmag.com Answers often lie in strange places. I have long hated the QWERTY keyboard. Designed more than 150 years ago to slow human input via the frail mechanicals of the typewriter, it is a dinosaur masquerading as high tech and has become the main input device for billions of computers across the planet, strangling global productivity a little more every day because it is also impeding the progress of the computer from the desk to the couch, the train and the footpath. So when I called into beautiful Tapong to see my mate Kiril's new guesthouse on the beach in rural Thailand, the last thing I expected to find was a viable keyboard replacement.en gizmag.com http://www.gizmag.com/the-alphagrip-a-viable-alternative-to-the-qwerty-keyboard-or-not/12273/#comment-14011 http://www.gizmag.com/the-alphagrip-a-viable-alternative-to-the-qwerty-keyboard-or-not/12273/#comment-14011 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:59:12 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-alphagrip-a-viable-alternative-to-the-qwerty-keyboard-or-not/12273/#comment-9619 http://www.gizmag.com/the-alphagrip-a-viable-alternative-to-the-qwerty-keyboard-or-not/12273/#comment-9619 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:44:24 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/the-alphagrip-a-viable-alternative-to-the-qwerty-keyboard-or-not/12273/#comment-3979 http://www.gizmag.com/the-alphagrip-a-viable-alternative-to-the-qwerty-keyboard-or-not/12273/#comment-3979 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:50:23 -0500