I was kind of surprised that the keyboard for the Lenovo Yogabook 9i dual-screen folding laptop wasn't so done.
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#102Finally an evolution of the keyboard People hated on Apple for the touch bar, but this is the natural evolution of the keyboard, why stick to fixed physical keys when you can have them digitalized to be context aware The problem will be the price Mechanical keyboard market already is a scam where 90% of products are greatly overpriced, that will not encourage them to offer a reasonable price unfortunately EDIT: The k…
Are you kidding, I saw a mouse the other day selling for two hundred bucks. Provided that by some miracle this has a good keyboard feel, I can imagine entire shops switching over to this in specialized industries, plus loads of gamers, translators, people wanting it as a status symbol. It could even be something of a security measure by obfuscating the keys during login. Even perhaps a laptop manufacturer can license their tech for dual screen laptops like the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i. It wouldn't even be a $400
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#103This is exactly what I've been dreaming of ever since Hall effect switches came back. It's very reminiscent of the old school Zboard keyboard that had physical overlays tailored towards specific games. This digital approach seems a touch more scalable.
Also that the keys are "maglev" Each key is magnetically suspended with rare earth magnets allowing them to be 97% transparent and ultra low friction. Each switch has 4mm of travel and will be available in linear and tactile variants. They also feature a software adjustable actuation point in 0.1mm increments and rapid trigger functionality through analog hall effect sensing. The keys contain magnets along their peri…
Their description feels wrong to me. How does an attractive force repel the key and keep it suspended?
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#104Is it possible to give the key tops a concave curve? I find that that helps me be a slightly less mediocre typist, but I'm guessing it would distort the image underneath.
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#106Interesting. It could be used together with a foldable laptop/tablet. Something like ThinkPad X1 Fold.
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#107I prefer blank keycaps. Better for posture and focus to not be looking at your keyboard all the time. Also, maintaining the need to see your keys clearly puts arbitrary limits on tent angle. I would appreciate something which could understand both my keyboard firmware and whichever app has focus, and summon a hotkey helper on screen which mirrored my key layout.
if you don't want to shell out for a das keyboard, you could really just use any keyboard and spraypaint all the keycaps
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#108As far as I know the "other times this has been tried" all have had individual displays (and controllers) in each key. The difference being that here there is just one panel under the whole board with most of the parts above the display being transparent. This approach should be far less complicated to build, more robust and cheaper. Honestly, I don't think I need an LCD in my keyboard but I'd quite like to have a go…
For a simpler but different-feeling option, you can also use rubber domes and glue, e.g. https://github.com/geoffder/dometyl-keyboard/#another-dactyl...
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#109If they could get the knobs to attach to the screen without metal contacts (maybe inductive power and alignment magnets?) and have a touch screen, this would make an incredible customizable music / midi controller. It would be a joy to make hybrid HW/SW interfaces for soft synths with that.
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#110Am I the only person who wants a Thinkpad type trackpad-button in the middle of the keyboard so I don't have to move over to the mouse or trackpad?
Weird - I saw this and thought ... "this is all great, but where's the trackpoint?" :D The only real ooo-ahh for us is if some fancy new keyboard design has a trackpoint. All the pretty lights don't match up to that trackpoint :D