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A keyboard without the keys

Posted November 29, 2007 3:02 PM

From Crave: The gadget blog:

How's this for weirdness: A keyboard with no keys. No, it's not an invention from Yuri Geller or any other spoon-bending psychics. It's a real product called the "OrbiTouch" that has been around for a few years but is enjoying some renewed attention, perhaps because navigation by way of the cliched Minority Report touch screen has yet to become a reality. Rather than typing with the usual keys, it works with two domes that can be maneuvered into quadrants of letters, numbers, and symbols, according to Dvice. The magic orbs then can supposedly be slid into segments of colors that correspond with the desired keys. It sounds something like a high-tech Ouija board. As interesting as this sounds, we'd probably pass on it. Not just because of the $400 price tag, but because we generally need to type more than three or four words a day.

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11/29/2007 8:47 PM

Thanks, but no thanks.

I shall stay with my trusty genuine IBM made in 1993 keyboard.

These were built like a brick out-house, to last indefinitely.

Of course every couple of years I have to dismantle it, and clean out between the keys etc....

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11/30/2007 12:55 PM

I'll stick with my keyboards too; but really, you dismantle, clean and reassemble your old keyboard every couple of years ? Hardly seems worth the time given the price for most keyboards; of course, it keeps them out of the recycle trash.

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11/30/2007 1:03 PM

My new Dell keyboard didn't survive one small coffee spill. I am using a 15 year old Tangent keyboard now.

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