This reminds me of the Noahpad, one of the sillier ideas to come out of the Great Netbook Craze of the late 2000s. That thing looked like an ergonomic nightmare and RSI waiting to happen.
A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard
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#32Flat keycaps means it's not really suitable for any prolonged used. The newish mac keyboards solve the key homing problem with large gaps between keys, but it's still not great experience.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure how it’s any better than the Logitech K400 or the Microsoft All in One keyboard, especially since those don’t need any special software support so can work with your Android TV, Apple TV, HTPC and essentially any other device that supports USB HID, and those cost only like $20-30 I don’t see this thing being sold for less than $150-200.
> Not sure how it’s any better... this looks like it's half the size of those two... so that's at least somewhat better.
Not really since there is little chance for this to work well without additional software which likely would limit its functionality, also it doesn’t seem to matter that much for a couch keyboard and if you want smaller there are smaller keyboards.
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#34Lenovo have similar:
https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/accessories-and-monitors/keyboa...
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Not sure how it’s any better... this looks like it's half the size of those two... so that's at least somewhat better.
Not really since there is little chance for this to work well without additional software which likely would limit its functionality, also it doesn’t seem to matter that much for a couch keyboard and if you want smaller there are smaller keyboards.
Why? If it's done in any sensible way, it should simply show up as a HID device and work pretty much everywhere.
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#36The arrow keys. Ugh. That set-up - left and right keys same size as normal keys - I could never get used to it on the new macbook keyboards
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#37Looks this would be perfect as a "sofa keyboard" for controlling a home media center or similar. I guess that the main difficulty would be not pressing the keys while using it as a touchpad, but I imagine it would be possible to get used to that.
This makes a lot of sense for a use-case. Their proposed use-case of e.g. phones and tablets (see: already touch-enabled devices) makes me wonder... why use an inferior touchpad on a keyboard when you could just reach up and touch the screen to begin with? Especially with the things they're demoing: moving your cursor to click on something (just tap it) or scrolling (just... scroll normally?). I use a laptop with a "…
One problem with using the screen of a tablet (when you are using it with a physical keyboard) is you have nothing to stabilize your hand on. I tend to miss things when using my Chromebook touch screen because my hand is a tad shaky when holding it in the air to touch the screen. On the trackpad (or keyboard), my hands or wrists tend to rest on the table surface.
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#38Looks this would be perfect as a "sofa keyboard" for controlling a home media center or similar. I guess that the main difficulty would be not pressing the keys while using it as a touchpad, but I imagine it would be possible to get used to that.
Not sure how it’s any better than the Logitech K400 or the Microsoft All in One keyboard, especially since those don’t need any special software support so can work with your Android TV, Apple TV, HTPC and essentially any other device that supports USB HID, and those cost only like $20-30 I don’t see this thing being sold for less than $150-200.
Partly because you don't have to move your hands from typing position. And partly because it is smaller.
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#39why is signup for preorder so detailed about the user? it even requires phone number. Most of the questions were so sketchy I gave up and didnt sign up. Would not be surprised if all that data ends up in wrong hands and will be used for phishing.
Because it's a Korean company.
It's far less common to use email to contact a customer in Korea. As you can see email is not even a required field in the sign-up page. The customers prefer to receive notifications via SMS (or Kakaotalk nowadays) then email. Actually email is almost meaningless in Korea for contacting method to consumers.
If the company send official release news to sing-up customers on email only, they might complain that the company contact them on email for such an important announcement.
Email is the least serious communication channel in Korea. Even in Business-to-Business situations email is usually used for sending files, not for communications.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really since there is little chance for this to work well without additional software which likely would limit its functionality, also it doesn’t seem to matter that much for a couch keyboard and if you want smaller there are smaller keyboards.
Why? If it's done in any sensible way, it should simply show up as a HID device and work pretty much everywhere.
Because these types of trackpads need special drivers these days e.g. windows precision drivers.
Even basic things like palm rejection is done in software and for this one to switch between keyboard and trackpad in the fly you’ll need very good software that can predict just what you were intending to do.