Esther Schindler has written a great story about some wild keyboards over at CIO Magazine, starting with the de rigueur Steampunk keyboard, which inspires my consumerist lust. However, there are some other hot new items, including the Bluetooth virtual keyboard, which is not only wireless, but really, keyboardless, since the letters are projected onto a surface. Then there is the hyper-ergonomic kinesis keyboard. All, however, are qwerty keyboards except for the Optimus Maximus, which uses an LCD display that can be customized for each key, making it useful for any language or symbol set, or enabling you to position the keys exactly where you want them: qwerty, dvorak, abcd or your own invention. As long as I can use my typewriter keyboard software — which mimics the sound of using an old Remington and available free from alphaomega software — as I hit the keys, I am happy.
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