Category: Keyboards
Saitek Cyborg – high-end gamer's keyboard
If you take your gaming seriously, you might want to take a closer look at the Saitek Cyborg keyboard…
IWOOT's Dynamo keyboard powers your PC the harder you type, with kinetic energy
I Want One Of Those doesn’t just offer robots and r/c lederhosen toys, you know! Their latest product to hit the virtual shelves should please our Hippyshopper editor, as it’s the most eco-friendly keyboard around. You can tell by the soft green glow, innit.
When typing on the Dynamo keyboard from IWOOT, the kinetic energy produced from your usage is transferred to your PC, and stored as electricity which, in true eco-friendly form, powers the whole unit. You don’t even have to plug your PC into a socket! It’s the ultimate way of using your desktop wirelessly, where you can the maximum performance of your hulking beast, but used just like a laptop….
Microsoft unveils Vista-inspired Wireless Laser Desktop 7000
Clearly the chaps at Microsoft must be using a different version of Vista to me, because right now the only keyboard design Vista is inspiring me to make is one that I can twat them over the head with. New Windows meant new law suits fancy functions which I’ll begrudgingly admit that while being a massive drain on the system do look rather snazzy.
Naturally you’ll want a keyboard and mouse that complement this sleek design and so Microsoft is providing the goods with the latest Wireless Laser Desktop 7000. The keyboard part is an ultrathin Comfort Curve design (read: the keys are aligned in a sort of bend). It’s a 2.4GHz wireless model and comes with the already available 7000 wireless rechargeable mouse.
Art Lebedev now working on wireless Optimus Mini 3.0
If it wasn’t for the fact that the ideas were so damn cool, Art Lebedev would be at risk of becoming a laughing stock for its utter failure to deliver the one product (announced in 2005) that started all its hype. There is a bit of a consolation prize in the form of the Optimus mini three – a three buttoned alternative to the proper OLED enabled keyboard we were hoping for – and the Russian designers are now planning to evolve it a bit further by taking it wireless.
Maplin intros virtual laser keyboard, type on any flat surface
Maplin has announced the availability of its Bluetooth Laser Key Projection Keyboard, a gadget that will project a keyboard onto any flat, non-reflective surface and allow you to type. It works by optically tracking finger movements, and incorporates both keyboard and mouse functions.
Maplin claims that it’s comfortable to use, and reduces the wrist strain associated with using a standard keyboard. The keys are also projected larger, which is supposed to assist faster, more accurate typing.
Scientists invent invisible keyboards. Can't they focus on cloaks?
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in the US have developed something called the Relative Keyboard, which is (kinda) an invisible keyboard. At least, you type on a blank touchscreen, and the software figures out what you meant to type by measuring the relative distance between your keystrokes.
Artemy Lebedev brings the touch screen to the keyboard with the Optimus Tactus
Art Lebedev has adorned these pages on numerous occasions, usually with the much-delayed Optimus keyboard. And just when it finally does arrive, it gets trumped by the Optimus Tactus.
Wolfking Warrior Xxtreme keyboard is just scary
Yikes! I haven’t been this afeared of a keyboard since the time I saw that health & safety video about exactly how many nasty bacteria are lurking under my QWERTY keys. Not that bacteria would even dare venture onto Wolfking’s Warrior Xxtreme keyboard, which is pictured above.
Apple has developed a touch-sensitive keyboard, TouchStream, according to patent applications
Last week a patent application for a touch-screen keyboard by Apple was leaked to the rumour mill (internet forums) which has subsequently caused a bit of a storm, as you’d expect.
Already in possession of a name, the TouchStream keyboard uses the same technology behind the iPhone, which they acquired when they bought the company Fingerworks in 2005. The design shows…
New Standards Keyboard introduces new keyboard layout, in the puzzle style?
If you were wondering why we have a "Keyboards" subcategory under "Computers", it's for the likes of this quirky new gadget from New Standards Keyboard. Believing that the QWERTY keyboard is flawed, as is the increasingly popular DVORAK alternative,…
