Believe it or not, on a daily basis you still use something invented in the 1860s. It's not an object, but a UI: The QWERTY keyboad layout, first patented by American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes in 1867.Initially, the QWERTY keyboard only provided capital letters, allowing early typists to send shouty correspondence to each other. But in 1878 Sholes came up with the shift key, allowing one to type both capital and lowercase letters with a relatively compact layout. Competing designs gave uppercase and lowercase letters their own keys; with this chaotic Caligraph typewriter below, uppercase keys are black, lowercase white. After adding the shift key, QWERTY market dominance ensued, and has persisted to this day.Is it time for an update? A startup called TypeMax thinks so. They reckon that symbols we hardly ever used in the 20th centurylike # and @are now daily parlance. Furthermore, coders use symbols constantly. Thus the design of their QwertyMax keyboard adds a dedicated symbol row above the numbers, as well as keys for commonly-used shortcuts and browser navigation controls on the right. The real sign of the times, though, is the QwertyMax's addition of a key that Sholes would not have been able to comprehend. Down at the bottom is a dedicated "emoji" key. This doesn't enable anything on the physical keyboard itself, but automatically opens your computer's emoji panel on-screen. At press time there was no price nor release date announced, just a sign-up waitlist promising 50% off of whatever the asking price will be.