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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: sethstorm on Fri, 29 January 2010, 10:55:22

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: sethstorm on Fri, 29 January 2010, 10:55:22

Preh GTB 11 Keyboard
Link to product (http://www.prehkeytec.com/413.html?&L=1#c3274)

I'd not mind one of these myself, but they aren't listing these anywhere that isn't reseller-only.

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: Mercen_505 on Fri, 29 January 2010, 12:03:28

I could see that being useful in industrial applications. Some folks are already doing things like that for push-button controls as well. Wireless, at that.

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: Mental Hobbit on Fri, 29 January 2010, 12:26:22

Speaking of Preh: Does anybody know what kind of switches they use in their POS boards?

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: sethstorm on Fri, 29 January 2010, 16:15:47

Quote from: ripster;154577

Reminds me of my Das days.

I'd just get an iPad and use iTap. (http://itap.mobi/itap)  The app turns your Touch/iPhone into a keyboard.

No thanks, there are better uses for an IPS panel than the iPad.  That, and I don't want to have to break my product to use it.  Secondly, if I wanted to do double purchases for a product(hardware and the unbundled software), I'd buy a Cisco router.

Quote from: Mental Hobbit;154579

Speaking of Preh: Does anybody know what kind of switches they use in their POS boards?

Good question, as some of their stuff looks like a cross between the Cherry RC128 and my G86-63410.  Stumbled into the boards when I was looking in the Point-of-Sale section.

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: Mental Hobbit on Sat, 30 January 2010, 03:03:19

Preh POS boards pop up on German ebay all the time. That's why I assumed a) they're well known and b) they probably suck so badly that nobody cares to mention them.

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: JBert on Sat, 30 January 2010, 05:20:08

Hmmm, this thing has the same tactility of those laser keyboards... The only difference being that you'd get a different sound.

Also wouldn't want to use one where they use fingerprint door locks.

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: In Stereo! on Sat, 30 January 2010, 05:57:18

It reminds me of that awful Lebedev concept keyboard.
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/

Only this is quite uglyer and doesnt have the only thing that would make such a keyboard really useful -- a display.

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: lowpoly on Sat, 30 January 2010, 06:02:21

Quote from: Mental Hobbit;154579

Speaking of Preh: Does anybody know what kind of switches they use in their POS boards?

I think I researched that once and they were rubber domes.

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: kriminal on Sat, 30 January 2010, 08:25:45

Quote from: In Stereo!;154794

It reminds me of that awful Lebedev concept keyboard.
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/

Only this is quite uglyer and doesnt have the only thing that would make such a keyboard really useful -- a display.

hmm it reminded me of this art lebedev
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=23205

i find the concept of this one quite awesome though....

Title: If you dont mind a glass capacitance keyboard...
Post by: molto on Sat, 30 January 2010, 17:40:09

€ 1,207.85 (http://www.wunschkauf.de/preh-gtb-11-alpha-schwarz.htm).