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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ideus on Sat, 01 October 2016, 12:30:18

Title: Halo Keyboard.
Post by: ideus on Sat, 01 October 2016, 12:30:18

A new bread of computers would emerge? or it is just a new sort of technological experiment that would not last but a few months?

You have seen it already, probably, or it may be something new for you; either way, your touch typing skills may be test to their limits with this new thing:

(http://i.imgur.com/fcMcfFu.png)

An interesting side note, is what those home bars would be of benefit for? Home bars in a virtual keyboard? well, you should live to see.

(http://i.imgur.com/t00iHfD.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/KseVF59.jpg[/imBeauty comes handy, when you carry your belongings to the meeting room.http://i.imgur.com/HS943PF.jpgI am really tempted by the possibility of taking actual notes, on paper, the very good old way, and have them digitized on the fly, would you?http://i.imgur.com/77z5QZN.pngI am not sure about the keyboard, but I would use it for my lectures at the classroom only.)
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Title: Re: Halo Keyboard.
Post by: Coreda on Sat, 01 October 2016, 13:02:20

Is that 'iBook', and from Lenovo? Surprised Apple hasn't said something about it. And yea the home bar symbols are amusing :D

Title: Re: Halo Keyboard.
Post by: kasakka on Sat, 01 October 2016, 13:48:27

This is one of those things that looks cool in pictures but is horrible to use as you'd be constantly watching where you're putting your fingers since there is no tactile feedback.

I'm still waiting for those touchscreens where you can feel whatever is on the screen to come to market. Saw videos of the tech several years ago but I guess it's not easy to mass produce.

Hopefully let's say 10 years now we are typing on laptops or tablets configured to feel like a nice Topre keyboard. ;D

Title: Re: Halo Keyboard.
Post by: Ashlyn on Sat, 01 October 2016, 15:10:21

This will be hard to type , when screen broke  :p

Title: Re: Halo Keyboard.
Post by: fublamchu on Sat, 01 October 2016, 17:15:15

Laptop manufacturers seem to want thinner and thinner keys but I don't understand why. I get the desire to keep on innovating but I don't think making the keyboards thinner and thinner (and overall worse feeling) is the way to go :(

Title: Re: Halo Keyboard.
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 01 October 2016, 21:23:30

I think this is the way to go.

However,  it STILL has to be tentable,  otherwise the ergonomic is still problematic.

When you have to turn your wrist to meet a flat surface,  there is simply too much pressure.

Title: Re: Halo Keyboard.
Post by: saxophone on Mon, 03 October 2016, 06:28:56

Theres like two lenovos

One lenovo is the giant that bought up IBM

One LENOVO is some misc chinese company that released ripoffs/chinese copy of pretty decent high tech stuff of okay quality but generally poorly documented instructions or unstable beta drivers/firmware