Wood Grained Keyboard Offers Ultimate Tactile Satisfaction

[Guest]

Pshhh. My keys are made of carbon fiber with special designed wings to prevent air drag when pressing the keys

 

[unrealpinky]

Reminds me of the "Obsoletely Fabulous" episode of Futurama.

 

[zakaron]

This guy may be on to something. When I first plant my hands on the keyboard to start typing, the first thing I do is feel for the ridge on my 2 home row keys to make sure I'm on center without having to look down first. Same goes with the numpad, I make sure my middle finger feels the ridge on the 5 key first so I know I'm centered. If you could *feel* each key, then you'll get a more positive notion of not second guessing yourself if you you think you over reached a certain key. Also, I'm not terribly great with symbols on the top row of numbers, but if I could feel them I m would not have to always look down.

Anyway, he may have glued them to an existing keyboard, but as the article states this is a prototype and I imagine that if interest peaks, he could do his own fabrication and include different keyswitches and layouts.

 

[Guest]

Ooh...ahh...

 

[master_chen]

Why do I think that it would be painful as fun*k, to type on that?

 

[freggo]

Why not put braille notation on the keys. That would definitely make them unique and you may actually, over time, learn to read/feel the keys or elevator markings

 

[c4v3man]

I'd rather have some cherry switches mounted underneath some simple scrabble tiles.

 

[twelch82]

[citation][nom]drwho1[/nom]ridges would be very uncomfortable to type on.[/citation]

That was my thought. I wonder what problem he is trying to solve by making each key uniquely identifiable by touch. Touch typists don't need to feel an "a" explicitly to know the key in that location is an "a".

 

[bad_student]

I just spent $150 on a top tier mechanical keyboard. I don't wanna hear that there's better for at least the next 5-10 years that mine will last.
So, yeah, put me down for "F34R TEH SPLINTX0RZ"

 

[bad_student]

but now that ridges have been mentioned, it would be neat to have all keyboards come with brail. We'd learn the brail alphabet as a bonus from playing video games all day. Note: dvorak users would be fucked.

 

[zak_mckraken]

It looks like a keyboard a Fakir would use.