This latest patent held by Microsoft, featured a multi-touch virtual keyboard design, solved the issue that user could not really feel and locate the on screen keyboard without looking at it.
The key concept for the virtual computer keyboard technology is that it’s using the multi-touch design to make the on screen virtual keyboard show on the place where your palms are located once you touch the screen. So you can key in anywhere on the screen without knowing where the keys actually are.
Very simple concept but really handy design.
It seems there is going to be a touchscreen war at the end of this decade.
Hare is a video we found on youtube indicated that Microsoft have implemented a kind of Multi-touch tech on its coming OS Windows 7.
Microsoft Surface – Microsoft multitouch computer display
Would physical keyboards survive for another decade?
When people talk about keyboard cat, the first thing comes to my mind is charlie schmidt’s “cool cat”, a cat wearing a blue t-shirt and “playing” a happy rhythm on an electronic keyboard.
The following video really confused me, how did they make a cat play electronic keyboard like that?
If someone would create a “computer keyboard” version of this, it’ll certainly soon make the cat and its owner sound over the Internet. Just like the old charlie schmidt’s “cool cat”.
Ok, here is another funny stuff you may like to see, it’s rather a vintage cat keyboard, also AKA “A cat piano“.
Now do you hear something, you know, kind of “meow meow meow”, in your mind?
The iKey AK-39 is a full computer keyboard that built to NEMA 4X and MIL-461 specs with water proof, force resistant and anti electromagnetic design. You can use it left-handed or right-handed, most importantly, one-handed. Its backlight will ensure that you have a night vision friendly computing interface.
It’s so bored to use the regular computer keyboard every day. The Keyboard illuminate Sticker may raise some interests, but still not enough.
How about this one, it’s from Luxeed, a computer keyboard with colour changing LEDs under the touch strips of each key.
The blinking colours on keyboard will no doubt catch some eye balls, but moreover with the software bundle, by creating different patterns of different colour LED lights, you can make some fantastic lighting in a creative way.
Let’s just check out the video to see actually how it looks:
More information available on its offical website: luxiium.com
This is the latest monster gaming laptop from Alienware. On board with an Intel Core 2 Qua QX9300 processor, dual Nvida GTX 280M video cards in SLI mode, 4GB dual channel DDR3 mamory and 2x 500GB 7200 RPM hard disk in RAID 0.
What really impressed me was its full size computer keyboard came with the number pad that most of the laptops would never have. It also comes with LED lights under the keys’ touch strips. The lighting is so fantastic as you can choose the ideal combination of the colours from in the command center software. You’ll definitely have some fun with those LED lights when playing games.
