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MiniGuru Keyboard Makes Typing Quicker By Keeping Your Fingers On The Home Row

The MiniGuru keyboard has three layers of functions designed to keep your fingers on the home row. Theoretically, that means you could type more efficiently. It would also mean a major overhaul to your typing technique. Special modifier keys can be held down with a free thumb, allowing the user to cycle through layers of…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Mad Catz Eclipse Keyboard and Mouse Join the Touch-Sensitive Party

These new Eclipse keyboards and mice from Mad Catz are pretty standard fare, except for one key feature—touch sensitivity. The keyboard has a 3-in-1 touchpanel keypad, and the mouse is able to understand finger gestures. The Eclipse Wireless Litetouch keyboard comes in wired and wireless variants, and is distinctive because of it’s 3-in-1 LCD touchpad…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Microsoft’s Arc Keyboard Is Really Warped

As far as functionality is concerned, Microsoft’s wireless Arc keyboard is fairly standard. However, the crazy, warped design is what really makes it stand out. “The design tenets that we looked to for the Arc Keyboard were simplicity and crisp softness, creating an aesthetic for this product that is casual and sophisticated at the same…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Is Apple’s Magic Mouse an Energy Vampire?

Apple’s sexy, touchy feely Magic Mouse could be an energy-sucking vampire, according to a number of reports on the Apple Discussion Boards. The present hypothesis is that the Magic Mouse is preventing the Bluetooth keyboard from entering sleep mode, resulting in weekly battery changes. One user purportedly contacted Apple Tech Support and was told the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Datamancer at It Again with Steampunk-Inspired Luxury Keyboard

Steampunk-inspired PC master modder Datamancer (aka Rich Nagy) is no stranger to Gizmodo, and his latest work, a keyboard called Sojourner, is yet another example of his mastery within the genre. If you really like steampunk-inspired gear, this can be yours for about $1,200 to $1,500. The keys have all been artificially distressed to give…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Moby Gives a Tour of His Incredible Drum Machine Collection

In this really fascinating interview, electronic musician Moby reveals his cache of vintage drum machines and keyboards. Get ready to look lustfully at, in Moby’s words, “the nerdiest equipment ever.” It’s especially interesting because he doesn’t dismiss modern software conveniences—he uses them and likes them, and understands their value. But he also uses these old-school…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Keystick Keyboard: The Hypochondriac’s Data Entry Tool

The Keystick collapsible keyboard concept looks like it was designed with portability in mind, but its true purpose is actually rooted more in swine flu than road warrior. Indeed, designers Yoonsang Kim and Eunsung Park designed this keyboard with true paranoia in mind. They even slapped a “None Bacteria Project” label on there so there’s…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Letters R, A, N, S, O and M are Going To Be Worn Out On This Keyboard

Other frequently used words might be: “pay,” “dollars,” and “disappear.” Too bad this flexible, portable silicon keyboard doesn’t include a matching font—although I’m sure that can be easily remedied. [Conran Shop]

Tech News Sean Fallon

Gadget Singularity: Let’s Ditch Our Buttons and Screens Forever

The past decade’s march towards better gadgets shows a trend line pointing towards ultra powerful gadgets with UIs so seamless, they make Macs look like a punchcard computers. But if you think about it, we—not hardware—are the limitation. Besides processing power, price and battery life improvements, our preferences for gadgets and the direction of those…

Tech News Brian Lam

Logitech G110 Gaming Keyboard Has More Purple Lights Than a Discoteque

Logitech’s more basic counterpart to the ridiculous G19 gaming keyboard, the G110 is screenless, playing up custom lighting with “red, blue, or pretty much any shade of purple you can imagine.” Mostly, I’m glad they finally integrated some headset jacks. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-g19-keyboard-review-5201428 The price you pay is that it’s got a single hi-speed USB port instead…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Piggy Flu Mania Means Vioguard Keyboard Is Your Best Hope For H1N1 Avoidance

The Vioguard keyboard might be the first keyboard to specifically target the swines, using two 25-watt UV lights to kill 99.99% of viruses and bacteria in about 90 seconds. The bad part is that 0.01% that it doesn’t kill gets to breed and breed and become superbugs—but that’s something for our kids to worry about.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Your Password Will Never Get Stolen With the Safelock Keyboard

What can you do with a pressure-sensitive keyboard? That’s what Microsoft asked 40 teams. SafeLock’s one answer: It doesn’t just know your password, but how you type it, biometrically authenticating you without creepier probes. [ACM via GadgetVenue via CrunchGear]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

This No-Name HTPC Remote Has a Keyboard, Can Work With Game Consoles?

If this $40 remote actually does what it says it does, then it might be one of the most useful HTPC remotes out there. It looks like a Motorola Q, but communicates over RF to its USB receiver. Once your signals hit the receiver, you can support Windows, Linux, Mac or Xbox 360, PlayStation 3…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple and Microsoft Tablets: Hardware Keyboard or Software Keyboard?

Whether it’s the Microsoft Courier or upcoming Apple Tablet that launches first, the point is clear: tablet are coming. The only question left is how you’re going to interact with them. https://gizmodo.com/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet-5365299 From the concept shots and information leaks, both Microsoft and Apple’s feature on-screen inputs for doing a lot of things, but they don’t…

Tech News Jason Chen

Korg microSAMPLER Ready to Rock Your iPhone Noodlings

The iPhone has so many great music-creation apps that they deserve their own category, but shiny dedicated instruments like Korg’s new 37-key sampler are always nice. It has a line-input, goose-neck microphone, and editing software for the Mac or PC. It connects to computers via USB, but also has MIDI in/out connections. The line-in jack…

Tech News Danny Allen

Microsoft’s Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard Could Change The Way You Type

It’s only a prototype at the moment, but the pressure-sensitive keyboard Microsoft has cooking up promises to make your typing far more efficient. For example, font size could be changed based on how much pressure you apply to a key and typos could be reduced by gauging the pressure applied to simultaneously pressed keys in…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Now All the Alienware m17x’s Keyboard Needs is a Unicorn

Matt told me the Alienware’s m17x notebook was blinged out like it “just landed on earth after a long trip from a planet populated entirely by a evolved race of disco lights”. I guess this is what he was talking about. [Crave] https://gizmodo.com/alienwares-allpowerful-m17x-obliterates-crysis-with-dua-5272560

Tech News Brian Lam

OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard (Unofficial Codename: Optimus Budgetus) Priced at $135

The OCZ Sabre asked us to compromise, featuring a sharply limited number of display-integrated keys, so we asked it to do the same: dip below $200, or else. Today, ZipZoomFly is listing the Sabre at a reasonable $135.00. https://gizmodo.com/ocz-sabre-does-oled-custom-keys-on-the-cheap-5300949 For comparison, ThinkGeek sells the Optimus Maximus, the great grandpappy of the OLED-in-a-key concept, for a…

Tech News John Herrman

10 Ways to Make Your Keyboard Slightly Less Disgusting

Your keyboard is probably a SuperFund site waiting to happen—luckily there’s more than one way to skin a biohazard. Inc.com has 10 ways to clean your keyboard, blow dryer being their wiliest, if lightweight, method. [Inc.com via Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/clean-your-keyboard-with-a-hair-dryer-5308249

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Lenovo on the Slow, Painful Evolution of Keyboards

The Lenovo T400 series, aside from its occasional tussles with heavy machinery, doesn’t immediately stand out in the mid-size, high-end laptop crowd. That is, until you try to type on one. https://gizmodo.com/lenovos-t400s-aims-for-the-line-between-portability-and-5300183 What Lenovo has done sounds like a smaller deal than it actually is: on the T400 series, the delete and escape keys are…

Tech News John Herrman

MiniGuru Keyboard Makes Typing Quicker By Keeping Your Fingers On The Home Row

Mad Catz Eclipse Keyboard and Mouse Join the Touch-Sensitive Party

Microsoft’s Arc Keyboard Is Really Warped

Is Apple’s Magic Mouse an Energy Vampire?

Datamancer at It Again with Steampunk-Inspired Luxury Keyboard

Moby Gives a Tour of His Incredible Drum Machine Collection

Keystick Keyboard: The Hypochondriac’s Data Entry Tool

The Letters R, A, N, S, O and M are Going To Be Worn Out On This Keyboard

Gadget Singularity: Let’s Ditch Our Buttons and Screens Forever

Logitech G110 Gaming Keyboard Has More Purple Lights Than a Discoteque

Piggy Flu Mania Means Vioguard Keyboard Is Your Best Hope For H1N1 Avoidance

Your Password Will Never Get Stolen With the Safelock Keyboard

This No-Name HTPC Remote Has a Keyboard, Can Work With Game Consoles?

Apple and Microsoft Tablets: Hardware Keyboard or Software Keyboard?

Korg microSAMPLER Ready to Rock Your iPhone Noodlings

Microsoft’s Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard Could Change The Way You Type

Now All the Alienware m17x’s Keyboard Needs is a Unicorn

OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard (Unofficial Codename: Optimus Budgetus) Priced at $135

10 Ways to Make Your Keyboard Slightly Less Disgusting

Lenovo on the Slow, Painful Evolution of Keyboards

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