These traditional Japanese-style keyboards are a class apart from the grey or white boringness of the average keyboard. As well as looking different, and neat these devices are even handmade for that extra "creative" touch. The gold one's damn attractive and would look cool on many a desk: but not the green "kara kusa" one... that just looks like a typing nightmare. That attractiveness costs, mind you, as they're available for $154.90. Except the gold "Zip-Ang" one, which is a whopping $214.21. [Akihabaranews]
Japanese-Style Keyboards Look Almost Too Good for Typing
4:03 AM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Kit Eaton
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$214 for a $20 keyboard and some spray paint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see TokyoFlash has gotten into the keyboard biz
They all look vile.
Disgusting...suddenly my dell keyboard looks so much better to me
Make a kid laugh while he's drinking juice and you've got that one keyboard.
Sure they look too good for typing.
You're afraid you'll smudge the finger paint!
Are those rabbits or alien heads?
@robo: they are rabbits - like at the side views.
heh they're cute - do they do whole laptops like this?
They are all profoundly hideous, their creators should fall on their collective swords immediately.
@PJK: Agreed... "ribbons of shame" for the designers
I'm fairly sure the designer of the black/gold monstrosity is responsible for the family of hideous riced up Toyotas down the lane.
Hey... @ is its own key. Great for people who e-mail a lot, I guess.
Yeah, those totally do not look like roasted shit. Totally.
"What? Have you got a gold one?"
What no shokushu goukan theme?
I can see why they are attractive. Likely they add to peoples internal decor.
I think I'll go more minimalist and wait for the Bluetooth DasKeyboard II.
You think they look bad now...imagine how they'd look a year down the road once all the paint's come off and been replaced by that nasty combination of dead skin cells and oils that always accumulates on input devices.
@effingcrazy: Haha. True dat. And more confortable.
Yes, many a collector has been known to scour the antique shops of downtown Tokyo for woodblock prints of "traditional" Japanese keyboards from the Edo period.
Seriously, "traditional"? These are Japanese layouts of keyboards with some Japanese designs on a few of them, not traditional keyboards. The designs are highly atypical and likely not even sold to the mass market. Your average keyboard in Japan is just as grey and boring as your average keyboard anywhere in the world. If you don't believe me, search amazon.co.jp for keyboards and experience the blandness for yourself.
only one word falls into this:
LAME!
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