The CM Quick Fire TK was actually born in here and I'm quite sure that the CM Storm Novatouch wouldn't have been created were it not for the Topre enthusiasts...
In April 2012, the prototype of a mechanical keyboard with a unique layout which wasn't ever used before on mechanical keyboards (although there were membrane keyboards with them) appeared, mixing the arrow and numpad keys into a single one.
The name of this prototype was PLUM 96. A topic was created on geekhack discussing about this keyboard and how its layout was "perfect".
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=29605.0But, soon the topic was forgotten for some time, mostly because the keyboard hadn't been released (but periodically someone would ask whether it had been released already or not), until the PLUM 96 started being sold in
September and the topic was ressucitated.
Some time after the topic got active again, Carter from CM Storm, posted the following:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=29605.msg671509#msg671509"So you guys like this layout.... people will be very happy soon"
In October, just a month later, the CM Quick Fire TK was annouced, having the same layout as the PLUM 96 as well as NKRO through USB (something CM Storm didn't had before and the PLUM 96 had).
The fact is, Cooler Master used the PLUM 96 as base for the CM Quick Fire TK. Carter doesn't even hides that because he discusses about the release of the CM Quick Fire TK on pages 4 and 5 of the PLUM 96's thread:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=29605.msg697651#msg697651