OT: Dream keyboard

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_siemens.com>
Date: Fri Aug 27 06:25:59 2004

Am 26 Aug 2004 22:55 meinte der Mouse:
> > OK, all this talk about best and worst, what features would you have
> > on your dream keyboard?

> Soft keycaps - make every keycap a small (64x64?) display.

Has already been made ... early 80s, a keyboard for the PC,
Ok, the display was 8x8 pixel, still, you had you configurable
keyboard - The labels even changed according when pressing
Shift, Alt, Ctrl - I think they even had two more 'shift' keys.

> Rearrangeable layout - some kind of mechanical setup such that keys can
> be moved around. (I can imagine something like a 1mm sawtooth on the
> edge of each key, so that with a surround the key positions are frozen,
> but if the surround is removed they can be rearranged.)

Go to your next PC store, and get yourself a ZBoard
http://www.zboard.com/us/index.html

> It would be a bit expensive, but flexibility is.

Oh yes, it was.

Gruss
H.
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