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Offline ocdonkb

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Microsoft Pressure Sensitive Keyboard
« on: Wed, 21 October 2009, 13:27:04 »
New video from an internal MS research team. Should be of some interest to this group.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/Pressure-Sensitive-Keyboards/

Some notes:

- yes, it's rubber dome
- Analogue measurement of force on the key
- NKRO. In the video it shows him pressing down, and registering many keys. Also explains how each key is individually sensed..
- disecting the dome switch mechanism. Briefly mentions mechanical switches.
- Pressure-sensitive font style(interesting idea at least)

Check it out if you got some min to spare.
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Offline ironcoder

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« Reply #1 on: Wed, 21 October 2009, 13:47:20 »
I had two pressure sensitive Chiconys. They hit a tile floor at about 10G.

Fortunately, there were no survivors.
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Offline JBert

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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 21 October 2009, 13:58:59 »
Hmmm, there might be some more info here... although this has been posted at least twice. :-)
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Offline ds26gte

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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 22 October 2009, 11:51:57 »
This could make Mouse Keys finally a non-clunky option for everyone.  Right now, Mouse Keys is a somewhat painfully learned skill, and doesn't compare in terms of intuitiveness and feedback to a real mouse/trackball/trackpad/whatever.
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Offline msiegel

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 22 October 2009, 11:54:32 »
Quote from: ds26gte;127615
This could make Mouse Keys finally a non-clunky option for everyone.  Right now, Mouse Keys is a somewhat painfully learned skill, and doesn't compare in terms of intuitiveness and feedback to a real mouse/trackball/trackpad/whatever.


now *that* is a great idea :D
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Offline chimera15

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 22 October 2009, 21:18:23 »
pretty cool, still sucks it's rubber dome though, and hated how he talked about rubber dome like it was some great thing. lol
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Offline Rajagra

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 22 October 2009, 22:15:05 »
At least he admitted membranes/rubber domes were a cheap method.
I still think the design will struggle to detect multiple key presses accurately while typing normally.

Anyone else notice the woman's pullover didn't quite tally with her having tattoos? An interesting fashion statement going on there.
« Last Edit: Thu, 22 October 2009, 22:18:13 by Rajagra »
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Offline hyperlinked

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 22 October 2009, 22:38:27 »
One unheralded benefit of this keyboard will be that serial killers will no longer need to cut letters out of magazines to leave behind their messages.

I can't see an entire keyboard being made out of this, but like ds26gte, I can see this having use in specific application.
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