The spacebar is the longest and most noticeable key on a laptop or computer keyboard. While it may seem like simple design, practical and historical reasons explain its large size.

Computer keyboards serve as the primary manual interfaces between users and systems, designed to bring ideas, commands and communications into the digital realm. Unless you dictate into a headset microphone or control your computer with your eyes, breath ...

Studies show that computer keyboards have more bacteria than toilet seats. But it's hard to clean all those keys. So some people advocate an extreme solution: Throw your keyboard in your dishwasher. At first glance, this seems insane. But the computer ...