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New Keyboard Technology

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-please-gimme-some-of-that dept.

An anonymous reader sent in linkage to a story running on a few places about a new customizable keyboard. It's a bit beyond anything you've probably seen before. Also tom's has more.

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  1. Bad solution to a problem which is already solved by tweakt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That thing looks painful to use. I have enough trouble with a normal keyboard layout, but there's really no point to putting keys anywhere but directly under your fingertips where you don't have to move to reach them.... which is exactly what the CLAW has solved:

    http://www.claw.com.au/

    (It's been out for 5 years now too)

  2. Egonomic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How exactly can they claim that this is ergonomic, when they leave the layout to users, who may know nothing about ergonomics, and thus, create joint-damaging layouts?

  3. Where's the damn keyboards with LCDs in the keys? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seems obvious, really. If I want to switch to an APL or Dvorak keyboard (or in a multinational european environment, different people using the same computer have different national keyboard preferences), the glyphs on the keyboard should change!

    Combined with repositionable keys like the subject of this story, that would be pretty interesting.

  4. Buckling spring? by vidarlo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, I tought so. I'm still clacking away at my old IBM Buckling Spring keyboard. This keyboard has lasted since 1987, and is the best one I've ever came by to write on. So it's such a pity that they can't make new keyboards, with all the fashionate hotkeys, and loose keys (yes, I know this keyboard has loose keycaps) and such, with proper Buckling Spring switches under each key.

    Sure, it'd cost twice as much, but maybe I for once would get a new keyboard? Ok, I'm not the target group for this new keyboard, but still. If I found a new and attractive keyboard (which I find all the time, like logitech's wireless), but with real buckling spring, I'd buy it at once, even if it'd cost a few hundred dollars.

    Those rubber-dome keyboards is just shitty to write on! So if anyone knows of a black keyboard, that ain't so deep as the Model M, has some hotkeys and has real Buckling Spring mechanism, I'll buy it at once.

    Me wants a real keyboard!
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