News Keyboard for writers has word-count odometer, sprint timer

[Admin]

The Freewrite Wordrunner will launch on Kickstarter in February.

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Maybe it's just me, but I see a flaw: The printed keyboard layout is just the standard US-EN layout instead of the US-International layout. For a keyboard designed for writers, with the term "writer" also extending to people who write articles for online publications, it would seem to me that having visible access to ¢, ©, £, €, Ñ, and other special characters would be of benefit.

 

[jkhoward]

lol this is hideous, if I was an author I wouldn’t be able to write looking at this thing, it zaps all creative thought out of my mind

 

[Findecanor]

It looks like they would have taken some Chinese OEM keyboard and put it inside a new tray. Looks cheap.

If the function key symbols need text legends as well then you've failed in drawing them.
I dunno what the Forward and Back keys do, but the symbols looks like those typically used for Indent and Unindent.

Having all function keys in one line is also a fail.
The convention of having groups of four has the purpose that keys are easier to find again by remembering their spatial position.
A better layout (used on many keyboards) would have been to use a 1/4 unit spacing between each group and use the extra space to place a single key on the far right.

If you want the Alt Gr key to be bigger and easier to hit, then why not make it wider?

Edit: Also, I'm not sure about the front bezel. It is not wide enough to be a wrist rest, and it is not slim enough to not be in the way. I expect it to be just uncomfortable,... unless that is the point: to make users type with their wrists hovering above the keyboard... (?)

Oh, why do I bother. Now I have written a long post for what is essentially yet another useless gimmick - keyboard.