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If you want a good laugh, I recommend checking out PCWorld.com's article The World's Weirdest Keyboards. You'll either think "this is just what I was looking for" or you will be laughing so much you won't be able to say anything.

Goes to show what happens when people have too much time on their hands, some money sitting around and a copy of the movie Robots which drilled into their heads the idea of "See a need, fill a need".


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on Mar 19, 2009

Zoologist03
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This thing would be awesome if it could display without requiring you to be in a dark basement.  

~Zoo

Just wait until you knock the projector over and the lazer beam cooks your eyes...

on Mar 19, 2009

What!! No keyboard pants?

Hah, talk about a useful fashion. I'm not sure why this was missed by PCWorld. Maybe they think it's actually cool as oppose to weird.

Pardon me, I have my...*ahem* joystick caught in my zipper........again.

  Just hit the spacebar between your legs to free it.

I actually liked the playschool looking one but it didnt have any numbers on it....

You know, I always wondered why the letter were set up on the keyboard in such a random fashion and not in order like the alphabet, or like this keyboard. Honestly I still don't know for sure but I figure it has something to do with how the brain sees letters as you write them and the most common letters used or something like that.

Hmm, maybe someone can point me to a good source that can explain why a keyboard layout is made this way?

on Mar 19, 2009

Just wait until you knock the projector over and the lazer beam cooks your eyes...

It does seem to be easy to knock over doesn't it?

on Mar 19, 2009

My keyboard....[on charger stand]....it's bluetooth and includes the quaint warning...'your battery is running low....in 21 days' [or some-such]...

But the build quality [feel/action] is excellent

That is one sick ass looking board Jafo!  Is that the diNovo Edge?

I've been using Logitech's Cordless MX Duo mouse and board combo for over 6 years now.

After looking at yours, I'm seriously considering an upgrade.

 

on Mar 19, 2009

Hmm, maybe someone can point me to a good source that can explain why a keyboard layout is made this way?

 

The explanation I got (have no idea if it is 100% true),was that in the days of mechanical typewriters,people got so fast at typing they were always jamming up the arms for the letters.(before the spinning ball typewriters)

So typewriter manufacturers shifted all the letters around to slow people down.But typist adjusted anyways and soon was invented the electric typewriter...then the word processor and pc.

 

Like I said,dont know if this is true but its a cool story.

 

You can get keyboards with the letters in order or even take one apart and do it yourself...you have to remap the key inputs.

on Mar 19, 2009

You know, I always wondered why the letter were set up on the keyboard in such a random fashion and not in order like the alphabet, or like this keyboard. Honestly I still don't know for sure but I figure it has something to do with how the brain sees letters as you write them and the most common letters used or something like that.

Hmm, maybe someone can point me to a good source that can explain why a keyboard layout is made this way?

@CharlesCS:

LINK

Hope this explains...the Wikipedia has some stuff too.

*Add/edit: I.R. sorry...the refresh rate is killing me. I was researching it for CharlesCS as you posted. Didn't see yours until mine "refreshed" after posting.

 

on Mar 19, 2009

Yes...the layout was to minimize key-jamming in the original mechanical typewriters...where the hammer arcs would often overlap and strike each other...and jam..... [been there...done that]...

on Mar 19, 2009

Because I power type for a living, keyboards are important to me.  I know that, although the Steampunk keyboards are gorgeous, they would be very impractical in my business.  Velvet would have tendency to hold the crumbs, and just tipping the keyboard upside down and whacking it on the desk a couple times wouldn't loosen the crumbs (people in my line of work eat at their desks ALL the time), so that would be a deal breaker.  The other ones in the article at PC World...seamed a bit like snake oil in the power typing department.

But in the winter (even in Florida sometimes), I know that being cold makes sitting at my desk aversive.  THIS keyboard is something I'd truly like to try, especially if I ever move North, which I'm planning to eventually do: Heated Keyboard-USB Standard 104 Key w/Ac Power Heating Unit  http://www.transcriptiongear.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=T&Product_Code=KB-WARM-USB&Product_Count=&Category_Code=
 

Then I could just add these:  Heated USB Dual Core Slippers
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/heated-usb-slippers-go-dual-core-219669.php

and I'd be as cozy as can be!

on Mar 19, 2009

i see,so it wasnt so much to slow typist down but more to seperate the levers of commonly used letters.

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