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I personally can't wait for some type of "emotion text". When im angry i type differently than when im depressed. This invention just might make the interwebs that much more humane.]]>Aug 6th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/
Remember when artists had a big pad that didn't have pressure-sensitivity? Then they got the "stupid" idea of 16 then 256 levels? Now they have 2048 and up? Stupid idea, right?

Even if this may not be practical for a normal keyboard (and I would LOVE to see this in a keyboard, especially with "accidental surround correction) this would be awesome for game controllers (like a Nostromo, for instance) . . . ]]>Aug 6th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/
Humanity? On my internet? I won't stand for it. But I will type about it and pound my fingers very, very hard on the keyboard while doing so. ]]>Aug 6th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/

More seriously, I suspect this would cause as much grief as it cures on text entry. But as others have mentioned, it should be a boon for gaming, cursor movement, or generally any keystroke used to control a continuous action.

And am I the only one who read the title as "lets you express furry tenderness"?]]>Aug 6th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 7th 2009 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Too soon]]>Aug 6th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/> Booooo.....
>>Too soon

Guess you won't like this then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGvrBV1vSQ]]>Aug 6th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/
Then imagine your mouse recoiling and hitting you in the face. That would be WTFPWNZAWESOME. Right?]]>Aug 7th 2009 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/
Software can do neat things with something like this.]]>Aug 6th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/
Think for two seconds and you can come up with an idea--press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot the computer, but wait for certain things to complete like disk buffer flushes. Press it HARD to make it reboot RIGHT NOW.

Like others have said, I want this on my left click mouse button too. You could even imagine a mouse that could tell how hard you were grasping it and went into a different mode when you did--aiming vs. movement for example.

This could be cool.]]>Aug 6th 2009 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/I'm really concerned about patents prevent its uptake though, pesky patents did it before :/
But at least MS makes keyboards and mice themselves now so there's hope.

]]>Aug 6th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/
And..."we're super intrigued by the typing corrector, which uses the pressure difference between keys you mean to type and keys you accidentally graze to fix your mistakes"

Just use a proper fricking keyboard with decent key throw, then you won't have that problem. If I accidentally graze a key then it _doesn't get pressed_. I don't know what Microsoft's obsession with wafer-thin keys and 2mm throw is all about.]]>Aug 6th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/
there's more than just CAPSLOCKING AROUND :)]]>Aug 6th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/I'd buy one, but not for $200 bucks like logitech would ask for it for instance.
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Oh man, now I'm boring...

Also, some joke about "button mashing" goes right here.]]>Aug 6th 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 6th 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/
Would be fun if the software provided would translate the pressure interrupts to MIDI.

Ableton Live users will rejoice!]]>Aug 7th 2009 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Why don't you come to your senses?
Climb donw from your fences and look me in the eye...
Tender Rondo]]>Aug 7th 2009 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/pressure-sensitive-keyboard-lets-you-express-fury-tenderness/Aug 7th 2009 6:14AM