Name: Marcin Wichary on the Evolution of the Keyboard by O'Reilly Radar in O'Reilly Hardware Podcast
Duration: 42 min 29 s
Description: In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, David Cranor and I talk with Marcin Wichary, design lead and typographer at Medium. Wichary is an authority on the history of keyboards, and he’s traced their development from an early period of enormous variation (when each manufacturer used to arrange arrow keys in a different way) through today’s relative stability.

Lots of interesting discussion, but I was hoping to hear more about different keyboard layouts (Colemak and Dvorak) and modern ergonomic keyboards.

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Marcin Wichary on the Evolution of the Keyboard

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American Pie

While shooting the cultish webserie “New York Minute”, Samuel Hirsch recorded some urban sounds and voices for this short Afro-American ballad.  
Recorded on March 2010 - Directed by Samuel Hirsch - Produced by http://arteradio.com
Balade sonore à New York, avec sons urbain et voix afro-américaines. Enregistrée et montée par Samuel Hirsch pendant le tournage de "New York Minute", la web série culte produite par ARTE Radio.  

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