It’s a problem we’ve probably all encountered at some point. You enter a chunk of text on your phone, but your fat-fingeredness leads you to accidentally delete it. Or perhaps you jotted something ...

The Pomera is almost the perfect portable typing device: A four inch grayscale display, a fold-out, full-sized keyboard, twenty hours of battery life from a couple of AAAs, a CR2 coin-sized battery ...

This contraption is an early “index machine,” which uses a dial rather than a keyboard to choose letters. To work this device, you lift the bar on top to guide the Y-shaped indicator to the letter you ...