Onkyo unveils aluminum WAVIO keyboards
We'll admit, we've seen a plethora of unique and well-featured keyboards in the past few months, but we can't exactly say we saw this one coming. Now that pigs are reaching cruising altitude and Denon's kicking out some new high-end headphones, we suppose an aluminum keyboard to match Onkyo's recently-unveiled metallic PC isn't all that shocking, but it's certainly not the company's usual cup of tea. Nevertheless, the WAVIO aluminum keyboard rocks a fairly typical QWERTY layout, an unfortunately truncated backspace key and spacebar, a noticeably cluttered numeric keypad, a bevy of macro / multimedia hotkeys, and entirely too much bezel for our liking. Still, the board comes in a few flavors, with a more rectangular wired USB version costing ¥8,000 ($67), while the curvaceous cordless version comes bundled with a matching critter for ¥5,000 ($42) more. Those who don't mind the tether can pick up the KB-1 sometime next week, while the folks waiting on the KM-1W won't have any luck until late March, but be sure to click on through for a few more closeups of Onkyo's oddities anyway.
[Via AkihabaraNews]
