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Das Keyboard: No Letters = Faster Typing

Posted July 16, 2008 8:31 AM

From technabob:

I sit at a computer much of the day and always thought I was a pretty fast typer. But apparently, those pesky painted letters on my key caps are actually slowing me down. Thankfully, there's a new keyboard that gets rid of the tiny bit of extra drag that those characters put on my tapping fingertips. The Das Ultimate Keyboard is completely blank. That's right, each and every one of its 104 keys (105 in Europe) is devoid of letters, numbers, or special characters of any sort. For those of us who are completely in touch with our touch-typing capabilities, I say, why the heck not?

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07/17/2008 3:30 PM

'Cause I'm not that completely in touch with my keyboard, is why the heck not. Now I gotta remember where all the keys are (like | or `) that I use once a year? Nah!

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