Keyboard-infused pants make it okay to grab your crotch
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 23rd 2008 8:03PM
posted Apr 23rd 2008 8:03PM
[Thanks, Hans]
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WTF!
Dear gawd, talk about not ever getting a girlfriend for at least a couple generations.
"Hey sweetheart! Do you need to type something?" Ha.
Boyfriend: Need to type something?
Girlfriend: No, I just want to play Tornado Button Masher.
Boyfriend: Beat my score?
Girlfriend: Oh, BABY!
ow
my arm is tired now
WTF indeed, all that technology and they couldn't find a model to fit into the pants.
Gives new meaning to the term "F-Key".
WTF! FTW!!
BUT CAN YOU PLAY DOOM using yourself as a joystick?
Flashpoint, you first need a joystick thats large enough to grab...
so many games, so little time to make fun
"A regular USB keyboard - $20"
"A led backlit USB keyboard - *$80"
"Wearing pants that sport a bluethoot enabled keyboard that you could have endless fun typing on - Priceless"
lmao
I dont think i want to know where the Charger is!!
WTG!!!
1st.
First, huh?
Someone looks like a retard now.
Don't take it so hard!
I know you registered here today, So we welcome you. :-P
I see. This is your official first post on Engadget. Sad to see it low ranked. Anyway, let's clear up the misunderstanding and enjoy your stay here!
space bar, space bar, space bar, space bar, space bar, space bar, shift ..... RETURN!
Space BAAAR!!!
Ooops... Another leak.
Dear god why?
that's just wrong!
Oooohhh, it is a thousand kinds of RIGHT!!!
I don't care how dorky I'd look, I still want a pair!!
lol I want a cheap pair that doesn't actually have a working keyboard so I can make bad pickup lines.
Chick: Weird pants
Me: You wanna type something
Chick: Creep
I'm sorry, I'm just really sleepy and cant think of anything funny to say.
Dude that's so right and would be the perfect companion to the WiFi detector shirt!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/991e/
it's OFF CENTER!
that would be so uncomfortable to type on, you'd have two shift your hands over.
and the space bar in tiny.
Why do pants like this always look like they are made out of cheap materials?
Because they usually are. :P
Pants...like...this? ...There are others?
hmm now students can text even more during class. teachers will have to confiscate their pants.lol
Teacher: "Take that off!"
Student: "But it's my pants!"
I think this would lead to more "inappropriate" teacher-student relationships.
"Stay after class, young man. You are to type out, 'I will not resist the advances of my teacher.' 1,000 times and I'm going to help."
Wow, playing a 2 person PC game would be really awkward. Especially if you are playing against the Angry German Kid. That would hurt.
Sterilized. In a world of pain. Although it would be somewhat awkward when AGK puts te keys back in...
Lol @ the "joy stick".
(Btw, why does Engadget get their stories like 2-3 days after Gizmodo all the time?)
Would you like Engadget to post every story that gizmodo does five mind after gizmodo. Or. Gizmodo to post every engadget story five mind after engadget does. ???????? Sorry but I like to have some different stuff to read ,even if it means I have to see the same story sometimes.
Its actually from YankoDesign even before Gizmodo and everyone seems to be misquoting Yanko with regards to the joystick thing.. that aspect was a joke.
mind = mins. Stupid iPhone auto correct
I'm not fussed. I stopped reading Gizmodo (after the TV-b-gone episode).
God damnit - just pick one and quit complaining already. If you read Engadget you'll get all the articles you need. Or go to the dark side if you prefer. But don't read both and complain: It pisses me off.
Whoa, Tier 7 loot...
looks handy for if I ever wanted to strike the oh so cool laid back typing pose, but id have to kill myself if i were to be caught outside in a pair of those ;)
I'm surprised no one mentioned anything about them being washable... too much Tornado Button Smasher and playing with that 'joy stick' and they surely will need a washing!
Seriously is the blue tooth unit and speakers COMPLETELY water proof or are you suppose to just 'spot clean' your jeans?
Same thing I was here wondering
Beware of sticky keys.
That's what "pops up" after "hitting" the shift key too much, right?
so you're saying up until this point it WASN'T okay to grab your crotch? oops.
you know, I could almost see this working in a split ergo style kb, but the middle buttons are just a bit much.
Why is the guy wearing bowling shoes?
because he is at the bowling alley playing pocket pool.
Actually they aren't bowling shoes. They are just a pair of vans shoes. ;)
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Now bring on the pair of trousers for women featuring an IBM clitoris or a multi touch sensitive pad on the crouch.
Shoot! I pee on the keyboard!
Stop peeing on the keyboard!
man dropping that hot cup o coffee on the keyboard suddenly got really dangerous
What happens when you need help with your homework?
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I think I speak for everyone when I say nobody likes drawing-space-hogs.
Woot Captain Picard. Did he facepalm cause Riker got some of these or because his Earl Grey recipe got corrupted?
nice
Captain, it seems a space-time rift has been opened and 4chan is merging with Engadget's crappy comment system! Do we take evasive action?
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Sorry for the text messages all night dudes, I fell asleep with my pants on :)
"u are a stupid homo"....
oh sorry....i think my keyboard typed that by itself...
...and you are denying your true sexuallity!
This is one case in which products like these should be made for Windows only.
If a thousand monkeys open and close their legs, can they write Shakespeare?
Type thine tool.
This brings surfin for porn to a whole new level.
It comes with it's own joy-stick
no comment
Oh god, clicking the read button and seeing them in use actually made me laugh out loud.
I wasn't sure which to post, so I'll just post all of my random thoughts:
Just in case you didn't already have enough nerdiness to repel women...
I'm not even going to guess what's helping your index fingers feel home row...
If used with a Mac, can you Zap your PEE Ram with it?
What about Open FIRMware?
Where's the PIPE key?
I imagine it's impossible to use if you have crabs...
[I'd better stop now]
DEFINITELY needs to be made into a FAIL poster.
Hey, if they made the zipper double as alt-tab you could hide everything in one swift movement! :)
"is your caps lock on, or are you just happy to see me?"
..the layout is qwerty, to keep your #$(^& from jamming.
Myth... It was designed to let typists type FASTER by placing strikers on the opposite end of the typewriter so that they would jam less.
The myth has been around as long as typewriters have been around. Look it up.
Lame.
Also: I would rock the shit out of these.
*wonders how many people will go to jail for playing with themselves*
No more Control-Alt-Discrete...
I was never aware that it was not okay
Now even the sedentery can engage in 'heavy panting' !
Sweet, a whole new reason to play with yourself. But seriously, if this where for real, you could prank your friends by typing stuff on their screen via VNC and they would never know.
Something tells me it won't come in womens' sizes.
"Honey, does this keyboard make my ass look fat?"
"Well the spacebar is a lil big..."
"MOM! You put my keyboard in the wash again!"
just how would these do in the wash exactly?
What happens if I punch in the "F" key while the man is wearing this keyboard-infused pant?
Imagine if these were made by Art Lebedev...Hmm, I guess they'd have never come out...
Get these on someone special and relationships could finally have cheat codes...
There has always been a cheat code for relationships, it's called Tequila. These pants are like a anti-cheat code for relationships, you're guaranteed not to have one.
I really actually want those *SO BAD*. I would actually wear them, too, with my space age retro-cool silver metallic trenchcoat, knee-high white platform go-go boots, a short sequinned top, my rad 60's shades if they hadn't gotten nicked out of a buddy's car, no scratch that, -ironic- safety goggles and whacked out hipster hair. I would totally sit there and innocently type like it's just no big deal, too. It would be amazing. I could go on but I'm sure nobody here really cares. =(
These would put new meaning to having QWERTY stamped upon my gf's forehead.
The real sad thing is that the trousers actually look really cool (keyboard aside) those seams are awesome. I'd buy the keyboardless version for sure
I've been dreaming about these for years.
No really.
I'm constantly dreaming that I'm stuck in an FPS game, and I need to change weapons or something, but I've got no keyboard!
Pants for people who feel they are getting laid just a little bit too much.
UHHEWWW I hit the spacebar to hard.
No disassemble Johnny 5's Pants!
Seriously People? This is where we have evolved too?
Who evolved to what now?
a new meaning to the word keystroke
This does explain a bunch of the Michael Jackson stuff that went on....Maybe those rappers were just showing us the future of texting.
If I had to choose between http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/22/digital-tattoo-enables-arm-based-conversations-constant-health/
and these pants I'd take the pants. Because the way gas prices are now I cant afford to have an arm confiscated at the airport.