It sure looks like a 3D rendering to my eyes.
unless it was photographed in outer space or hard vacuum, judging by the shadows alone, it is a 3d rendering (not to mention speculars, pinhole etc etc..
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#23It could be a photo but the keypad is fake. The image shows too much smooth colour distribution to be an unmodified photo.
No sane product designer would propose a keypad execution like this anyway. There is a massive ergonomic difference between thumb typing and pressing with the tips of extended fingers - put your fingertips on the keypad of your phone with your hand stretched out to see what I mean.
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#24I think this is actually going to be popular amongst electronic musicians who perform live. Two-dimensional analog position data that you can map to effects sliders and such, plus the joystick, plus all the mod buttons? Not too shabby. Might let yo do things with one hand that'd be complex at best to do with two hands on a mixer.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
The standard laptop is hardly ergonomic. The trackpad and pointing devices are somewhat helpful but the keyboards are all (without exception) terrible for extended typing. You're much better off getting a separate keyboard with the left and right halves of the keyboard angled inward so that hands and arms can remain in alignment.
If that works for you, great, stay with it. But in general, I don't see anything keeping a person from holding their hands in alignment over a standard keyboard and typing. Any keyboard does involve small finger movement to hit the different keys, so a can't see how changing key layout changes anything. Each person has a somewhat different pattern of habitual tension that can interfere with even normally easy activit…
What keeps you from holding your hands in alignment is your torso. It's physically impossible to have your hands square to the keys and yet keep the natural and relaxed line from your elbow to fingertips. The only way to do it would be to squeeze your elbows together in front of your body or compensate with your fingers (curling in your little fingers and stretching out your index fingers), neither option would be comfortable or practical.
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#26This would be very useful for WoW.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that works for you, great, stay with it. But in general, I don't see anything keeping a person from holding their hands in alignment over a standard keyboard and typing. Any keyboard does involve small finger movement to hit the different keys, so a can't see how changing key layout changes anything. Each person has a somewhat different pattern of habitual tension that can interfere with even normally easy activit…
What keeps you from holding your hands in alignment is your torso. It's physically impossible to have your hands square to the keys and yet keep the natural and relaxed line from your elbow to fingertips. The only way to do it would be to squeeze your elbows together in front of your body or compensate with your fingers (curling in your little fingers and stretching out your index fingers), neither option would be co…
What requires that your hands be "square to the keys"? I'm typing now and my fingers are a angle relative to the orientation of the square keys, yet that doesn't stand in the way of my typing. Yes, my smaller fingers are curled slightly more than my index and middle finger but that's not a huge insult to my physiognomy. The human body is actually pretty flexible but moreover, since our fingers are different lengths, it's hard to say there is a "perfect" place on the keyboard for them. Of course, for true alignment, one would want to have one's hand's palm upward but that's not going to happen with current input devices so compromises of one sort or another are necessary.
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#28This would be very useful for WoW.
I'd say Starcraft won't be against it either.
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#29I am surprised it is missing a horizontal scroll wheel- although it could be programmed to use the vertical wheel in combination with another button. Does Apple have some kind of patent coverage on the little trackball scroller? I use that for horizontal scrolling in spreadsheets quite frequently.
I generally find buttons and other physical controls much more usable than touch style interfaces and would be willing to give this device a try to see how it compares with the Space Pilot. http://www.3dconnexion.com/spp/index.php