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Pink bumps on a person's chest.

Rub them for pleasure.]]>Jan 12th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/I didn't know if I should laugh or shake my head. So I did both.]]>Jan 12th 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
Highest ranked here I come!]]>Jan 12th 2010 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 13th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Found the original forum post!

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:4917&do=comments]]>Jan 12th 2010 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
Yep this is actually the brain child of a geekhack member. He is also working on a new custom mechanical switch for it. If that doesn't work out you'll be able to pick pretty much any Cherry set for it. I've been waiting for this for a little while now. Glad to see it made engadget! ]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
Interesting.]]>Jan 12th 2010 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
Fail.]]>Jan 12th 2010 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Seriously, are you capable of making posts that aren't about Linux or Colemak? Nobody cares. You've wasted more time talking about Colemak than you would have saved by typing with it. Shut up.]]>Jan 12th 2010 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Props for the Dvorak love

To the rest of you, what's with all the hate? So what if it's software programmable to a different layout? EVERY keyboard is. But the real question is: can you change the HARDWARE to Dvorak or any other layout? Because on most modern keyboards you can't. And yea, once you've learned to touch type on Dvorak then you can get one with blank keycaps, or with QWERTY keycaps, or with whatever you want - I mean honestly, why do you think blank keycaps are better than QWERTY keycaps if you're using a different layout? They're both equally useless. But the point is, sure that's great once you've learned to touch type on Dvoark, but until you reach that point, having a keyboard that's acutally in Dvorak is a great help. I spent a year or two trying to learn Dvoark with no success - then I bought an IBM Model M keyboard, switched the keycaps into the Dvorak layout, and was back to the same speed I'd had on QWERTY within a month or two.

So yes, all that customization is great, but if it's still got the same tricks as most modern keyboards which prevent you from moving the keys around, then I'm not interested. Though actually, if it doesn't use real springs (and I'm betting it doesn't), I'm not interested either.]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/DVORAK sucks.]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
This one is customizable in firmware, apparently. I know you're talking keycaps, but still pretty cool, and far more than most keyboards.]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
Go check out the original post and prototype at geekhack. This is not "some company" making a crappy keyboards, its a total keyboard geek putting his personal design into production. This is going to have Cherry's or his own new custom switch he's working on. Plus he's incorporating a customizer to make it easy for dvorak/colemak users. I've been following this for a little while now and I'm looking forward to it. He's trying to keep the price well below the HHKB, and competetive to filco's and the like.]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Oh and those "tricks" keeping you from moving keys are molded keys that are shaped for a specific row. They serve a functional purpose and aid typing, its not to make changing them hard. Every keyboard has it, not just new ones. In fact some of the older ones are even more pronounced.]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
From the FAQ:

"Which platforms will the programmer software support?
Windows, Mac OSX and Linux."]]>Jan 13th 2010 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 13th 2010 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Mar 4th 2010 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
Yeah, but they don't sell them anymore. The new ones have laptop-style keys.

Also, none of the Thinkpad style keyboards are quite this compact.]]>Jan 12th 2010 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
You only have four fingers? Sorry dude :(]]>Jan 12th 2010 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
This seems like a good idea, but I don't know if many people will like having to type in a different style.]]>Jan 12th 2010 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 12th 2010 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 13th 2010 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 13th 2010 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
They are the mouse buttons.]]>Jan 13th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
Those are the mouse buttons.]]>Jan 13th 2010 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
Also, from the website's FAQ:
"Where is the third mouse button?
The prototype has only two buttons. The final version will have third button functionality. Most likely it will be thin horizontal strip of plastic between the buttons that are already there."]]>Jan 13th 2010 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
I've always been tempted by IBM/Lenovo's special nipplized keyboard. They have always been too expensive though, and of course them phasing out the awesome clickity keys hadn't help either.

Also, JKIL? Doesn't the guy know it's HJKL in vi?
]]>Jan 13th 2010 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/
WASD is the normal combo for inverted T navigation in the letter area, but that's on the left (wrong side for a normal keyboard.)

HJKL and IJKM were formerly popular navigation in the letter area, and IJKL almost took root before arrow keys were popular. It's right on the home keys, right on the right side of the board, and it's inverted T.]]>Jan 13th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/guruboards-miniguru-keyboard-aims-to-keep-you-on-the-home-row/Jan 13th 2010 8:00AM