News Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation

[Admin]

Google Japan announced a new keyboard design that addresses the “big problem” of keyboards only having keys on one side.

Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation : Read more

 

[Alpha Draconis]

🤣🤣... those Japanese and their sense of humor. I laughed for a while at the explanation of "why" a keyboard of this type is necessary and what "problems" it solves. A lot of anime and manga, a lot.

 

[domih]

A candidate for a next year Ig® Nobel Prize.

 

[Notton]

Exactly 6 months apart from April fools.

 

[Elusive Ruse]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

 

[cerata]

While it uses mechanical keys, the MX switches aren’t hot-swappable, as the design stands.

Not sure what gave the author this impression -- hotswap sockets are clearly visible in one of the photos (circled below), and are part of the BOM for the "A type" and "B type" PCBs.

https://flic.kr/p/2qk7BfN

Also notable is that they bothered to put individually-addressable RGB LEDs under each keyswitch. The effect is somewhat wasted, given the keycaps and mobius-strip housing are completely opaque. But it's a nice touch.

 

[newtorah]

It's still a single sided keyboard. The whole point of a Möbius strip is that it only has a single side.