Happy Hacking Keyboard HG Japan: the $4,400 keyboard
By Thomas Ricker 
posted October 12th 2006 10:14AM
posted October 12th 2006 10:14AM
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If I spray-painted my keyboard, my girlfriend would kick my ass...
Happy Hacking Keyboard Made in??
When this headline came up in my RSS feed, i read it as "happy ending keyboard" and was like "uhhh...how's that going to work? it better be self cleaning!"
:-)
Woo, this process comes from the prefecture where my wife was born (Ishikawa).
Hopefully this will prevent the nasty black key syndrome which plagues normal keyboards. Wajima lacquer is supposed to be VERY durable.
I thought it was made of chocolate at first glance, but alas... :(
I thought killing pandas and celeberties was illegal.
oooo when is someone going to make a chocolate keyboard
It amazes me what people will spend money on and even more so, what people THINK people will spend money on.
I didn't get the panda joke, but here is some info on Wajima laquer:
http://www.stutler.cc/pens/wajima/urushi.html
that is lame. who cares about durability of the keys that much? if you break a $5 keyboard, you buy another $5 keyboard. and you can break them several hundred times and still not cost that as much as this keyboard. i call that effectively more durability.
Most old IBM model keyboards kinda look like that now, don't they?
I think it's called "Sebum and Code sweat"
$4,400 ?!?!?
I'll sell you the letterless keyboard I made for an even $1,000. It's a bargain!
http://www.tacosntonic.com/pictures/My%20Computer/SprayPaintKeyboard2.JPG
From the URL posted above:
"Urushiol is the exact same substance found in poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac which causes rash and itchiness, so it is not advisable to handle liquid urushi with your bare hands unless you are one of the lucky few who are immune to it. Apparently, Asians and Native Americans are less likely to be sensitive to urushiol."
So, typing on this very expensive keyboard may cause painful rashes? Unless you're "Asian or Native American".
You know for $4K, I'd also expect a number pad with it.
"so it is not advisable to handle liquid urushi with your bare hands "
So, typing on this very expensive keyboard may cause painful rashes? Unless you're "Asian or Native American".
Yes because the keyboard is liquid.
Number pad??? You know the HHKB Pro doesn't even have arrow keys, right?
My brother and I did this letterless keyboard thing back in 1988. First with simple scrambling of the keys and then with spray painting so that the keys were illegible. Wish I'd thought that we could market the dumb things.
Out of all things you can apply urushi...............
a keyboard????
talk about stupid people...
come the fuck on... why the hell would ANYONE buy a keyboard that costs 4k+? And furthermore, what's the logical explonation?
please someone gimme an explonation
Seriously.... this has reached a point of stupidity that I think a new word describing such rate of stupidity has to and should be created.
If they even sell one of these, I should be selling my keyboards covered with Paris Hilton's shit for 10k.
@ HJKim
Before you start whining like a baby, please ensure that you are able to spell words correctly.
You may want to check this out.
http://www.p-e-t.co.uk/
Have a nice day!