Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 7000 hits the FCC

We've already seen Microsoft's upcoming Wireless Laser Mouse 7000, but surely you can't have mismatched peripherals on your desk -- it would interrupt your flow, your aura, your feng shui. Fear not, for the kind suits at the FCC have seen the panic in your eyes and released these dingy photographs of the upcoming Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 7000, averting your budding crisis of aesthetics. It's actually kind of a looker, with that slick glass frame and dedicated Flip3D button next to the right Alt key -- looks like there's another fine answer to the eternal question of "Which keyboard should I buy?"

[Via istartedsomething]

[phanbouy @ Feb 19th 2008 3:42PM]

I just want a wireless keyboard with fricken laser beams.

[Dave @ Feb 19th 2008 5:18PM]

sorry ill take a dinovo edge any day of the week over this thing

[phanbouy @ Feb 19th 2008 5:27PM]

what's with people giving unrelated replies to first or second comments just to get their post towards the top? i could see if there were 3 pages of 50+ comments each but even still...

[Frankenstein Black @ Feb 19th 2008 3:45PM]

Question: What exactly is a "Laser Keyboard"?

[Rollins @ Feb 19th 2008 3:53PM]

http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/

That, obviously.

[Frankenstein Black @ Feb 19th 2008 4:01PM]

**scratches's head** Hum! That keyboard (pictured above) doesn't exactly look like "projected key images".

[ssuk @ Feb 19th 2008 6:16PM]

You didn't specify that...

[Dualboot @ Feb 19th 2008 3:50PM]

I'd like an ergonomic, split keyboard that's a flat as the Apple keyboard. Could someone arrange that for me please? I don't care if it uses lasers, tasers, LEDs, OLEDs or SSD, I just want it to work. And no, I don't have a zillion bucks to buy the magic Maximus keyboard...

All of MS' previous keyboards have been to thick for my taste. The Logitech thin keyboard is fine, but it doesn't have an attached keypad. The Apple Aluminum keyboard is good, but I have to hack bootcamp to get it to work on my PC.

[ShadowMaker @ Feb 19th 2008 4:17PM]

If it were flat it wouldn't be ergonomic anymore wouldn't it?

[KingJackass @ Feb 19th 2008 7:32PM]

I have a flat head and flat feet does that mean that I am not ergo?

[Dualboot @ Feb 20th 2008 9:09AM]

I beg to differ. I prefer my hands as close to the desk as possible, as if there wasn't a keyboard there. The flatter the keyboard, the better for me. I don't know if that is ergonomically correct, but it works very well for me.

[phanbouy @ Feb 19th 2008 3:53PM]

hey wyszkow, how do i tell you to "fuck off, spammer" in polish?

[Chris in CA @ Feb 19th 2008 4:02PM]

@ phanbouy
no registration needed commenting now available @ /.

[phanbouy @ Feb 19th 2008 4:09PM]

so, you mean the spamming is worse there?

[ReggieXuk @ Feb 19th 2008 4:47PM]

I'M CHARGING MY LAZER.

[Ayle @ Feb 19th 2008 4:50PM]

shoop da woop

[Max R @ Feb 19th 2008 6:28PM]

That was my first thought as well... hehehe

[itlnstln @ Feb 19th 2008 5:17PM]

"Which keyboard should I buy?"

Easy, the only one to buy: Model M

[Hoos @ Feb 19th 2008 5:52PM]

I'm waiting for the Tazer keyboard so I can zap into twitching submission those who mock my matched set of Microsoft accoutrement.

Don't make me dual boot your ass!

[Jeff @ Feb 19th 2008 10:33PM]

I can't be the only person who finds that thing fugly....

[karts41 @ Feb 20th 2008 1:55AM]

Zune brown anyone?

[A. Nonymous @ Feb 20th 2008 12:56AM]

Hey, I'm sure anyone will buy it, as long as it has the Microsoft default keys: Cntrl, Alt, Del! LOL

[wyszkow @ Feb 20th 2008 2:54AM]

This is not a spam. look at this picture http://klawiatura.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/klawisze-duzee.png
count the keys. this keyboard have a 17 more keys and 2 language keys.

[Khaytsus @ Feb 20th 2008 12:33PM]

Could dupdot get worse? Apparently! Glad I haven't read it since about 2005.