Keyboard With eInk Keys

Note that this is a Kickstarter campaign:

https://liliputing.com/2020/11/neme...-with-epaper-keys-hits-kickstarter-nov-9.html

(Courtesy of liliputing site)

 

Yes, finally.

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So tempting.

If I thought I could actually manage to retrain myself in Dvorak I'd have to have one.

If I hadn't recently bought a ThinkPad USB TrackPoint keyboard (or if this thing had a TrackPoint) I'd have to have one.

If I weren't still trying to figure out where I am going to set up my nifty Azio Levetron Mech 5 gaming keyboard, or if it had mechanical keyswitches, I'd have to have one.

If only all of the other machines I'm using now didn't have keyboards or folio cases w/ keyboards, I'd have to have one.

If they'd made this more friendly to usage w/ a cell phone (integrated holder, mechanical switch for switching Bluetooth connection), I'd probably be able to justify it.

If they make a numeric keypad version, I'm in.

If they would just make a 4 or 5 key (all in a row) shortcut keyboard which was suited to velcroing to the front or back of a tablet, I'd buy it.

 

Looks fun, but fair warning: "It has a rechargeable battery good for up to 20 hours of run time when unplugged", so there's another device that you have to charge every other day.

 

Also, I wasn't able to figure out if you could connect multiple devices.

 

I personally do not have an urgent need for a keyboard like this since I use at most Spanish and Portugues QWERTY layouts that differ by just a few keys (pretty much the tilde and accent keys replace the semicolon and bracket keys), but I must say I can definitely see the need for non-Romantic language-fluent polyglots.

 

With Swedish you have å ä and ö but you also have ? _ ; " and so on at entirely different places. Remembering about seven or eight frequently used characters is no major problem, but when you have to write a URL with / \\ and so on it becomes confusing.