Can't find the right keyboard for your PC? Check these unique pieces of work.

from JoeUser Forums

If you want a good laugh, I recommend checking out PCWorld.com's article The World's Weirdest Keyboards. You'll either think "this is just what I was looking for" or you will be laughing so much you won't be able to say anything.

Goes to show what happens when people have too much time on their hands, some money sitting around and a copy of the movie Robots which drilled into their heads the idea of "See a need, fill a need".

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

This thing would be awesome if it could display without requiring you to be in a dark basement. :P 

~Zoo

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Wow. Those are some of the most bizarre things I have ever seen. I don't think any of those are remotely usable.

These, on the other hand, are beautiful, and functional. For the steampunk enthusiast: www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Awesome keyboards you linked to, Mistralok!

I specially like this one [Industrial Keyboard]

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Zoo,

You know what happens when you point a flashlight to a wall and pass your hand in front of it? Wouldnt this be the same effect for this particular laser keyboard? How would you hit a key projected from above your hand that gets disrupted by the same finger being used to hit it?

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Wow. Those are some of the most bizarre things I have ever seen. I don't think any of those are remotely usable.

Well, maybe the vertical keyboard could prove useful to someone who's been playing an accordion for most of their life.  }:)

 

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

These, on the other hand, are beautiful, and functional. For the steampunk enthusiast: www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm

That is one cool website, worth bookmarking. What a great idea for a birthday or christmas gift.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

You know what happens when you point a flashlight to a wall and pass your hand in front of it? Wouldnt this be the same effect for this particular laser keyboard? How would you hit a key projected from above your hand that gets disrupted by the same finger being used to hit it?

Didn't say it was perfect, just said it was cool. :D

~Zoo

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

LOL, Klingon language keyboard. 

 

tlhIngan maH!

 

/yeah, so I know a few Klingon phrases.  Doesn't mean a thing. ^_^

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What!! No keyboard pants?  LINK

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What!! No keyboard pants? LINK

 

i dont want to know where the "hot" key is :S ;)

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Pardon me, I have my...*ahem*  joystick caught in my zipper........again.:(O

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Kinesis has been putting out spaceage sloped ergo-boards since the early 90's.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I actually liked the playschool looking one but it didnt have any numbers on it.... :D :omg:

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My keyboard....[on charger stand]....it's bluetooth and includes the quaint warning...'your battery is running low....in 21 days' [or some-such]...

But the build quality [feel/action] is excellent...;)

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

wow,thats nice!...my keyboard came from a thrift store (I get ashes in them so they dont last long) :P

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Zoologist03, reply 1
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This thing would be awesome if it could display without requiring you to be in a dark basement.  

~Zoo

Just wait until you knock the projector over and the lazer beam cooks your eyes...

Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

What!! No keyboard pants?

Hah, talk about a useful fashion. I'm not sure why this was missed by PCWorld. Maybe they think it's actually cool as oppose to weird.

Pardon me, I have my...*ahem* joystick caught in my zipper........again.

:rofl:   Just hit the spacebar between your legs to free it.

I actually liked the playschool looking one but it didnt have any numbers on it....

You know, I always wondered why the letter were set up on the keyboard in such a random fashion and not in order like the alphabet, or like this keyboard. Honestly I still don't know for sure but I figure it has something to do with how the brain sees letters as you write them and the most common letters used or something like that.

Hmm, maybe someone can point me to a good source that can explain why a keyboard layout is made this way?

Reply #18 from Stardock Forums Top

Just wait until you knock the projector over and the lazer beam cooks your eyes...

It does seem to be easy to knock over doesn't it? XD

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My keyboard....[on charger stand]....it's bluetooth and includes the quaint warning...'your battery is running low....in 21 days' [or some-such]...

But the build quality [feel/action] is excellent

That is one sick ass looking board Jafo!  Is that the diNovo Edge?

I've been using Logitech's Cordless MX Duo mouse and board combo for over 6 years now.

After looking at yours, I'm seriously considering an upgrade.

:drool:  

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hmm, maybe someone can point me to a good source that can explain why a keyboard layout is made this way?

 

The explanation I got (have no idea if it is 100% true),was that in the days of mechanical typewriters,people got so fast at typing they were always jamming up the arms for the letters.(before the spinning ball typewriters)

So typewriter manufacturers shifted all the letters around to slow people down.But typist adjusted anyways and soon was invented the electric typewriter...then the word processor and pc.

 

Like I said,dont know if this is true but its a cool story. :D

 

You can get keyboards with the letters in order or even take one apart and do it yourself...you have to remap the key inputs.

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Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You know, I always wondered why the letter were set up on the keyboard in such a random fashion and not in order like the alphabet, or like this keyboard. Honestly I still don't know for sure but I figure it has something to do with how the brain sees letters as you write them and the most common letters used or something like that.

Hmm, maybe someone can point me to a good source that can explain why a keyboard layout is made this way?

@CharlesCS:

LINK

Hope this explains...the Wikipedia has some stuff too.

*Add/edit: I.R. sorry...the refresh rate is killing me. I was researching it for CharlesCS as you posted. Didn't see yours until mine "refreshed" after posting.

 

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yes...the layout was to minimize key-jamming in the original mechanical typewriters...where the hammer arcs would often overlap and strike each other...and jam..... [been there...done that]...;)

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Because I power type for a living, keyboards are important to me.  I know that, although the Steampunk keyboards are gorgeous, they would be very impractical in my business.  Velvet would have tendency to hold the crumbs, and just tipping the keyboard upside down and whacking it on the desk a couple times wouldn't loosen the crumbs (people in my line of work eat at their desks ALL the time), so that would be a deal breaker.  The other ones in the article at PC World...seamed a bit like snake oil in the power typing department.

But in the winter (even in Florida sometimes), I know that being cold makes sitting at my desk aversive.  THIS keyboard is something I'd truly like to try, especially if I ever move North, which I'm planning to eventually do: Heated Keyboard-USB Standard 104 Key w/Ac Power Heating Unit  http://www.transcriptiongear.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=T&Product_Code=KB-WARM-USB&Product_Count=&Category_Code=
 

Then I could just add these:  Heated USB Dual Core Slippers
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/heated-usb-slippers-go-dual-core-219669.php

and I'd be as cozy as can be!

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

i see,so it wasnt so much to slow typist down but more to seperate the levers of commonly used letters.