ASUS' Eee Keyboard revealed

The Eee train won't stop until all consumer electronics have been assimilated. Today ASUS introduced the world to the Eee Keyboard, a full-sized keyboard with built-in PC including WiFi (and Ethernet), speaker, mic, and 5-inch interactive display and touchscreen. It weighs less than 2 pounds and connects to existing displays. Well, it would if it was more than a concept, which, knowing ASUS, means someday soon.

Update: We spoke with ASUS, the Eee Keyboard is a near final prototype and is definitely going production.

Gallery: Asus Eee Keyboard revealed

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[Technophile @ Jan 6th 2009 7:13PM]

Highly reactive indeed.

[Testies, Testies, 1, 2... 3? @ Jan 6th 2009 8:06PM]

Forget Macworld with Apple's LAME product releases. Asus, this frighin ROCKS! (Till you loose a key on the keyboard)

[banned @ Jan 6th 2009 8:19PM]

lol then when your friends come over they will be like "wtf testies, why is a keyboard attached to another keyboard?"

[BradS @ Jan 8th 2009 1:03PM]

Is that a Japanese George W. Bush?

[Itsuru @ Jan 6th 2009 7:13PM]

Looks nice :) asus have had some good ideas up their sleeves haven't they?

[thesimplicity @ Jan 6th 2009 7:53PM]

Or they're cribbing notes from that WePC thing they did a while ago...

http://www.wepc.com/vote/view/dream/1192/Social_Mediapad

[KarlW @ Jan 6th 2009 8:58PM]

I just want to know how it's powered. It doesn't look like you can fit a decent battery in there.

[KAIKAI @ Jan 6th 2009 7:13PM]

hold
i think i hear 20 variations coming down the chute :P

[Ian @ Jan 6th 2009 7:37PM]

Well the first one is a good idea.

The other 19 upcoming variations are rubbish.

[Chris @ Jan 6th 2009 7:15PM]

eee-board?

[someone @ Jan 6th 2009 9:47PM]

you mean kEeeboard?

[Troels C @ Jan 6th 2009 7:16PM]

I'm not holding my breath for this one, cause I wanna experience it before I die. Very cool.

[sr @ Jan 6th 2009 7:16PM]

Wow that is just amazing. Connect to a monitor in your room, go to the living room and control your entertainment system and keep some internet going on the side for fantasy football or checking some other stuff. Absolutely brilliant idea.

[Tyler @ Jan 13th 2009 8:39AM]

yeah, for people with media center pcs this thing would be great. control the computer in the study then walk out to the family room to use the media center...brilliant. caveat: integration. but if that touch screen can be turned into a universal remote for the media center, or it automatically switches to a remote when you close to the media center, that would be unbelievable.

[Jayayess1190 @ Jan 6th 2009 7:16PM]

New EEE Tablet coming next!

[Sora @ Jan 6th 2009 7:32PM]

I think you mean tablEEEt, amirite?


...I'm probably not.

[banned @ Jan 6th 2009 8:21PM]

holy s**t you were right!

[SamusQTurdburglar @ Jan 6th 2009 7:17PM]

I don't care what anybody says, that looks pretty sexy.

[yas @ Jan 6th 2009 7:19PM]

Wow... Their first unique peripheral, well technically its a pc not an accessory. Regardless this is most certainly unique and i sense no Apple copying.. Thumbs Up

[oakie @ Jan 6th 2009 7:27PM]

they just copied Commodore instead.

[Jake Tobak @ Jan 6th 2009 7:28PM]

It's not original, it's just uncommon.

[LloydChiro @ Jan 6th 2009 8:11PM]

It's the unCommodore! I sense a retro mod where someone puts this in their old Vic-20 case.

[gaspero1 @ Jan 14th 2009 11:30AM]

Looks like a wireless TI994/A to me. Can you write BASIC programs in an 40x24 window on a 12 inch tube display with rabbit ears? That would rock.

[SKLP @ Jan 6th 2009 7:20PM]

Man, this looks like something Apple should have come up with today.

Me likey

[mabhatter @ Jan 7th 2009 12:00AM]

like an updated Apple 2! Those Commodores were such copycats...

[Jayflash @ Jan 6th 2009 7:22PM]

I still want a computer in my mouse:(

[kingdomskingdom @ Jan 6th 2009 7:22PM]

It's really a laptop without a screen. "First Wireless Media Centre"?

[Arkenklo @ Jan 8th 2009 2:55AM]

No, it's a laptop in a fullsize keyboard. With a screen.

[tristank @ Jan 6th 2009 7:22PM]

Amiga 500 eee version :D. I miss keyboard computers

[dennis @ Jan 6th 2009 7:22PM]

I like this concept a lot. Makes a lot of sense for home networks, much more so than grabbing an Eee Box and attaching all those cables to it.

[Unknown @ Jan 6th 2009 7:23PM]

At last we are closer to getting Cyberdecks!
Now we just need a pair of eyephones and we're good to go!

[Nekekami @ Jan 7th 2009 5:30PM]

aren't there those little glasses like things with 2 little screens and phones built into it?

[LackofMotivation @ Jan 6th 2009 7:24PM]

An updated commodore 64.... nice!

[LloydChiro @ Jan 6th 2009 8:12PM]

No. It's more of a TRS-80.

[chris @ Jan 6th 2009 7:24PM]

very innovative.

[Joshua Walters @ Jan 6th 2009 7:26PM]

Im guessing $400-600, which would actually make it purchasable in today economy.

I sure hope so at least. I look forward to getting my hands on one

[Byrdman @ Jan 6th 2009 7:27PM]

this is awesome. definitely an innovative way to make a small machine. depending on price this could be great.

[PCIV @ Jan 6th 2009 7:27PM]

Surprised there isn't more C64 comments...

[demonic_pascal @ Jan 6th 2009 7:29PM]

@PCIV

Aww you beat me to it!

[demonic_pascal @ Jan 6th 2009 7:28PM]

now THIS is cool. Throw some Commodore decals on it (maybe some ROMs as well) and you have yourself a wayback machine xD

[PayneX @ Jan 6th 2009 7:29PM]

Has anyone made the pun "EEEboard" yet?

[Chris @ Jan 6th 2009 7:32PM]

done and done...by me....look up

[The Silencer @ Jan 6th 2009 7:29PM]

It only has three keys, then?--and they're all Es?

[BetaHal @ Jan 6th 2009 7:30PM]

Well, it looks like a remake of good old Commodore 64. Maybe someone at Asus finally realized that nearly every TV made today comes with some kind of computer input, and gave some happy kids access to really BIG screens for their toys.

[vitriolix @ Jan 6th 2009 7:31PM]

I love that "good enough" laptops are now such commodity items that these companies can just cram them in weird new cases on a whim.

[B3astofthe3ast @ Jan 6th 2009 7:37PM]

We have these already....just violently tear off the screen of your laptop...

[go seki @ Jan 6th 2009 7:39PM]

Asus are making a lot of nice new and yes innovative kit .. reasonably priced as well ..
This I like .. and to the C64 fans .. its more like the Sinclair QL .. full keyboard big brother of the Spectrum integrated storage (horrid little micro-drives .. in fact it would make a nice mod kit .. perhaps using SSD or flash .. but anyway I digress ..

[LloydChiro @ Jan 6th 2009 8:16PM]

I looked it up. You nailed it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QL-top.jpeg
This one looks pretty cool too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ZXSpectrum48k.jpg

[Kai Cherry @ Jan 7th 2009 1:30AM]

You *know* you are old when the first thing you think is "Wow...so basically, we are starting over again...it is like a Vic20/C=64 for the new age..."

Then, you see a bunch of, "no no, it is more like a -" posts and realize you owned EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER MENTIONED...during it's original release.

Pass the Geritol now...A QL?!?! Someone actually *remembers* the QL?! Nooooice!

-K

[Zach @ Jan 6th 2009 7:39PM]

That's all well and good, but maybe I missed the part about how it's powered? Cuz that would kind of ruin i for me if i had to haul a power adapter around everywhere, too.