This "Virtually Indestructible Keyboard" has keys that are much like the rubber ones on POS Debit Terminal keypads. That is, they are made completely of rubber with a harder key surface embedded inside.
It is this hard surface that provides the feedback (imo). Your fingers feel the hard surface, and can tell when they have made contact with the contact pads underneath.
I would best describe the keypress as having (relatively) high initial resistance, followed by virtually no resistance (the travel of the key), followed by the contact with the bottom of the keystroke.
One problem that you may have with this keyboard is that it is completely flat. If you are used to typing on an angled keyboard you may have to fashion some sort of angled riser device to put underneath.
It's a pretty cheaply made tool, it certainly does the job for electronics related jobs, but wouldn't stand up to any significant amount of torque.
This one here (scroll down) looks to be of slightly higher quality. (now that I read the page, they have a few lighted screwdrivers)
They both seem dreadfully overpriced, my mom bought me mine from one of those dodgy characters that come into businesses and try to sell crap to the employees.
My parents have two of the most gorgeous, big fat shiny cats I have ever seen.
Their diet? A bag of dried food lying on the floor of the barn and whatever else they manage to hunt down and eat.
I love the way that these cats stay slightly feral all the time as well.. You can touch them IF you stay pefectly still and bribe them with a hunk of baloney or something.
I recently attended a university lecture by Mike Reiss, a former writer and current producer for the Simpsons.
He gave a great talk, and clearly stated that the core audience of the Simpsons, the one that gets the sponsors and whatnot, is pre-teen kids. He claimed that the writers aimed to entertain that demograph, and all of the extra layers of humour stemmed from the writers attempt to entertain themselves.
Same goes for the guest stars - He said a lot of them came from writers on staff wanting to meet certain people (i.e. james taylor in homer goes to space episode)
Hell, I'm _from_ Ontario and I've never heard of this place.. (It's in Oshawa if you were similarly out of the loop)
I figured it was going to be one of the degree-granting colleges but it looks like a legit university (perhaps hoping to get in on the "double-cohort" craze?). Says they're going to be accepting about 1000 students come September.
Their high-tech website seems a bit sluggish at the moment..
According to these people,
www.twnside.org among others, the switches that operate the light under the hoods of some cars contains mercury that is generally just being released into the environment..
Nobody really wants to take responsibility for the (relatively minimal) clean-up/recovery costs..
Apparently these little switches are one of the top sources of mercury contamination out there.
Yeah, but can you say that you played Oregon Trail on an ICON (an ancient sort of beast that even Google hasn't been able to tell me much about after a few minutes searching)..
My first thought was that something like this could be a fairly low buck way to set up a cool video display at a nightclub or party..
You could gather any old mismatched monitors and throw them up on a wall somewhere, hell, even just stack 'em on top of each other and strap 'em together for that cool 'arty' look...
I'm sure there have been many art exhibits that have done similar things before. (you know the ones, they usually highlight the terrible things that television has done to our society and whatnot) Now you can do it too!
Hell, it's a few days late, but I'm sure you could whip up a pretty spooky halloween display with this thing.. Show a creepy movie on displays scattered about the place, instant kinda high-tech terror..
My mom has made the following dish for years.. Sort of a family secret as you would never really want to admit to anyone that you eat the stuff.
Ingredients: One can Tomato Soup (I prefer campbells) A few cups of macaroni Some ground beef (up to you how much)
Fry up the ground beef. Cook the macaroni and drain it. Stir the tomato soup into the macaroni. Mix it together on your plate or put it on a slice of bread.
It's pretty yummy and you likely already have the ingredients!
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This "Virtually Indestructible Keyboard" has keys that are much like the rubber ones on POS Debit Terminal keypads. That is, they are made completely of rubber with a harder key surface embedded inside.
It is this hard surface that provides the feedback (imo). Your fingers feel the hard surface, and can tell when they have made contact with the contact pads underneath.
I would best describe the keypress as having (relatively) high initial resistance, followed by virtually no resistance (the travel of the key), followed by the contact with the bottom of the keystroke.
One problem that you may have with this keyboard is that it is completely flat. If you are used to typing on an angled keyboard you may have to fashion some sort of angled riser device to put underneath.
The Virtually Indestructible keyboard comes with a 90 day warranty.
Hardly instills confidence in the product, does it?
It's a pretty cheaply made tool, it certainly does the job for electronics related jobs, but wouldn't stand up to any significant amount of torque.
This one here (scroll down) looks to be of slightly higher quality. (now that I read the page, they have a few lighted screwdrivers)
They both seem dreadfully overpriced, my mom bought me mine from one of those dodgy characters that come into businesses and try to sell crap to the employees.
It's got strange keys like HEX, V COR/AX DUP, LCA, ALPHA, REPEAT, CHAR, BYPASS/PROG, CMND/REL and FIELD
It was made by Cortron, but has no identifying marks on the outside.
If you want it, pay the shipping and it's yours!
Their diet? A bag of dried food lying on the floor of the barn and whatever else they manage to hunt down and eat.
I love the way that these cats stay slightly feral all the time as well.. You can touch them IF you stay pefectly still and bribe them with a hunk of baloney or something.
He gave a great talk, and clearly stated that the core audience of the Simpsons, the one that gets the sponsors and whatnot, is pre-teen kids. He claimed that the writers aimed to entertain that demograph, and all of the extra layers of humour stemmed from the writers attempt to entertain themselves.
Same goes for the guest stars - He said a lot of them came from writers on staff wanting to meet certain people (i.e. james taylor in homer goes to space episode)
Dave
"Bum-bum-bum, ba-da-bum bum Bum" was "Ice Ice Baby" (really!)
They tried to evade the rip-off charges on the basis of the extra "Bum" at the end.
Dave.
IBM Model M.
Let your kid paint it himself.
He'll probably like the clickyness as well.
Dave
I figured it was going to be one of the degree-granting colleges but it looks like a legit university (perhaps hoping to get in on the "double-cohort" craze?). Says they're going to be accepting about 1000 students come September.
Their high-tech website seems a bit sluggish at the moment..
Dave
Nobody really wants to take responsibility for the (relatively minimal) clean-up/recovery costs..
Apparently these little switches are one of the top sources of mercury contamination out there.
And this was in high-school! Sheesh..
My first thought was that something like this could be a fairly low buck way to set up a cool video display at a nightclub or party..
You could gather any old mismatched monitors and throw them up on a wall somewhere, hell, even just stack 'em on top of each other and strap 'em together for that cool 'arty' look...
I'm sure there have been many art exhibits that have done similar things before. (you know the ones, they usually highlight the terrible things that television has done to our society and whatnot) Now you can do it too!
Hell, it's a few days late, but I'm sure you could whip up a pretty spooky halloween display with this thing.. Show a creepy movie on displays scattered about the place, instant kinda high-tech terror..
My mom has made the following dish for years.. Sort of a family secret as you would never really want to admit to anyone that you eat the stuff.
Ingredients:
One can Tomato Soup (I prefer campbells)
A few cups of macaroni
Some ground beef (up to you how much)
Fry up the ground beef.
Cook the macaroni and drain it.
Stir the tomato soup into the macaroni.
Mix it together on your plate or put it on a slice of bread.
It's pretty yummy and you likely already have the ingredients!