We've seen plenty of
out-of-the-ordinary, so-called ergonomic keyboards concepts, including
some that are configured so that the user types on the "back." This prototype, from Israeli startup Grippity, is especially odd looking, as it appears to be a full-sized QWERTY keyboard with gamepad buttons that's completely handheld -- "no desk needed" as the developer says. We don't have a ton of detail about the apparently patented design, other than the fact that it's not yet in production, but the makers expect it to cost about $1,000 once available. That's an expensive keyboard, but if it frees us up from the necessity of hunching over our desks for 12 hours a day, we just might give it a try. Check out two more photos of the device after the break.
posted Nov 14th 2008 1:02AM
It appears in the pictures that you hold it on the sides... yet the qwerty layout appears to be exactly the same as you'd see on a regular keyboard. Wouldn't it make more sense to split the keyboard down the middle like an ergo keyboard, and then rotate each half 90 degrees so that the fingers are hitting the same keys that they do on a regular keyboard?
But then you couldn't claim to type on the weirdest and most expensive keyboard.
If this were from china it'd be on crapgadget.
I completely agree. The concept is very interesting but the design is poor.
i need a steampunk one of these on the quick.
http://ROCKandREVIEW.com/
I feel like that's not how my brain works, regardless of which direction i'm hitting the key's from I think I would always want them in the standard qwerty layout when viewed from above, try turning your keyboard upside down and see how you like the reversed layout.
Steep learning curve - Lots of geek cred
$1000? Someone got super-greedy...
Yeah, I'm fairly certain I could prototype a similar model for $100 and even toss in a Dvorak layout for free.
WOW Dude thats cool
when they come out I'm gonna buy
ten of those cool PINK pencils...
Good luck with that. I was disappointed my netbook didn't come with a yellow pencil.
The problem with pink pencils is the maintenance - sharpeners, erasers, et al...
Be careful before blindly dismissing the costs.
What's a 'pencil' ?
I'm waiting for a 360 controller mod to incorporate one of these...
Would a chatpad not do the trick?
Think of all the chicks you would get with a pink pencil. Worth the upkeep, my friends. Totally.
Yeah, you'd attract a whole bunch of morbidly obese unfortunate looking chicks and be that guy in school who only seems to have girls as friends but not girlfriends.
I've wanted this forever.
It better have a colemak option.
Wow, sorry, as if that'd be hardware dependent at all.
I'm really tired, it's 1:15 here.
I know I will get low rank for this but.........
RIP OFF!!!
If you left off the first line I would have plus'd you since I agree, but since I'm a good man I never deny a masochist their wish.
A - I got my chick (see the wedding ring) without the need of the pink pencil. I use mainly the blue. that's why it is the only not amputated by a sharpener, ready to appear in front of the world (or the 10 viewers of this site..)
B - The 1000$ price tag is for the first batch of hand-made units of the media center keyboard product. final production version would cost around 150$, just like the Dinovo mini, but a lot cooler.
C - To show that we are not greedy, and that this is a plug and type keyboard (no learning curve), if we decide to make the 1000 units batch, the first 5 commenters (fox, xor24, allislost, shinigami and peter) will get it for free.
If this is legitimate, then I sure am glad there weren't any attempted "first" posts.
Ok, but when you make that keyboard magically appear on my desk, make sure it comes with a least a couple of pink pencils.
That's not a wedding ring -- wrong figure, wrong hand.
you've got your "chick"? i bet if you even had one and she did happen to hand you that ring she would be both insulted an insulting towards you by the way you wear it and how you refer to her. You deserve a nice kick in the balls.
Old news! The "no desk needed" was the originally the claim of a one-handed typing device:
www.dataegg.org
Every company except Apple sucks. Unless Apple makes this it's stupid. iPhone touchscreen keyboard FTW!
[there. at least I'll deserve the low rank now.]
hmm... you're not trying hard enough but I'll click on that little red square just to put a smile on your face.
Why? Just highrank him so he can go cry to mommy..
grest info!!!
i don't get it. Why would you need this. Does it really give that much of a difference form anything else. At first though i did think it was the insides of the Xbox 360 game pad.
Speaking of Xbox 360 I've just been excepted to download the NXE.
no one cares
You've been "excepted"?
You wont be allowed to download it? Rejected from downloading it?
Why do you feel the need to announce that?
If you've been excepted to download it, it means that EVERYONE BUT YOU is gonna get it.
If you've been accepted to download it, it means you're more than likely going to do so RIGHT NOW.
Just cause they sound the same don't mean they is are be the same.
Imagine how much faster you could potentially type on your UMPC or PDA if it had a keyboard on the back. This idea has a lot of potential but needs refinement. Possibly different key layout.
Yeah, gotta find me one of those transparent PDAs to put a keyboard on the back of . lmfao
Maybe they should stop trying to re-invent the wheel, and start making solid well-built stuff we want to buy during a financial downturn...
Not saying that this keyboard is a progressive step forward, but c'mon dude, innovation in the marketplace is a key element for a turn around in times of economic recession. Not goofy keyboards, but just sayin'...
Why is it backwards QWERTY?
it would be easier to learn a more efficient keyboard layout (with larger buttons for vowels etc) instead of re-learning qwerty backwards and using different fingers.
Ehm, the AlphaGrip has been doing this for years!
http://www.alphagrips.com/
no, actually this is much different. This one makes you learn forwards AND backwards. Very useful for life's daily tasks like... um...
Is the hand model wearing a robe?
I think he very well might be! Or a really, um, eccentric sweater.
hey it's goatse with a keyboard!
Still you need a desk, at least that's what the pic shows. Or else what is gonna hold the pink wood stick for you?
I CAN CLEARLY SEE A DESK! LIES! LIES AND FILTH!
Ditto on the alphagrip, this is waaay old news... now if only the alphagrip had bluetooth :(
I have an alphagrip and will attest that it would be much nicer if it had bluetooth :-(
Now, if it had a display on the front (back??) and called itself handheld ... I still wouldn't buy it! It looks like a chatpad for some game console, and a 1000$ is way too much for that kind of thing...