Laser projection keyboard review
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
Hope you have as much fun watching it as I had making this one .
Don't worry, next week it's back to keyboards that are actually functional .
Don't worry, next week it's back to keyboards that are actually functional .
- depletedvespene
- Location: Chile
- Main keyboard: IBM Model F122
- Main mouse: Logitech G700s
- Favorite switch: buckling spring
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My stitches! I completely lost it at the last of the alternative surfaces you tried that monstrosity on.
- depletedvespene
- Location: Chile
- Main keyboard: IBM Model F122
- Main mouse: Logitech G700s
- Favorite switch: buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0224
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You missed a chance, right before the typing demo, of saying instead of "Do not try this at home.", "Do not try this at home, or at the office, or anywhere else for that matter."
- depletedvespene
- Location: Chile
- Main keyboard: IBM Model F122
- Main mouse: Logitech G700s
- Favorite switch: buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0224
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Great review!
There is one aspect of these "keyboards" that you didn't dwell on — one that I immediately spotted back in 2004 (along with the serious defect of having to type on wood or glass), when they started selling them, marketed as "the future of typing".
The units back then (... and I would assume that now as well — I don't care to research the modern models) came with just the one layout to project. Why? It would have been trivial to include several national layouts, user selectable, to be projected within the exact same grid, or even to have different layers, akin to what users of <=60% keyboards are familiar with.
Heck, with a bit of more effort, those projectors could have been reprogrammable, to allow the user to define entirely new layouts, whether within the same basic preprogrammed grid (or grids) or some entirely user-defined one (how about hexagonal "keys" instead of square? Or larger squares for guys with thicker fingers, like mine?).
There is one aspect of these "keyboards" that you didn't dwell on — one that I immediately spotted back in 2004 (along with the serious defect of having to type on wood or glass), when they started selling them, marketed as "the future of typing".
The units back then (... and I would assume that now as well — I don't care to research the modern models) came with just the one layout to project. Why? It would have been trivial to include several national layouts, user selectable, to be projected within the exact same grid, or even to have different layers, akin to what users of <=60% keyboards are familiar with.
Heck, with a bit of more effort, those projectors could have been reprogrammable, to allow the user to define entirely new layouts, whether within the same basic preprogrammed grid (or grids) or some entirely user-defined one (how about hexagonal "keys" instead of square? Or larger squares for guys with thicker fingers, like mine?).
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
That quote is a reference .depletedvespene wrote: ↑You missed a chance, right before the typing demo, of saying instead of "Do not try this at home.", "Do not try this at home, or at the office, or anywhere else for that matter."
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
Doesn't really matter what layout you program into it tbh, none of them will work anyway .depletedvespene wrote: ↑Great review!
There is one aspect of these "keyboards" that you didn't dwell on — one that I immediately spotted back in 2004 (along with the serious defect of having to type on wood or glass), when they started selling them, marketed as "the future of typing".
The units back then (... and I would assume that now as well — I don't care to research the modern models) came with just the one layout to project. Why? It would have been trivial to include several national layouts, user selectable, to be projected within the exact same grid, or even to have different layers, akin to what users of <=60% keyboards are familiar with.
Heck, with a bit of more effort, those projectors could have been reprogrammable, to allow the user to define entirely new layouts, whether within the same basic preprogrammed grid (or grids) or some entirely user-defined one (how about hexagonal "keys" instead of square? Or larger squares for guys with thicker fingers, like mine?).
- JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
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Worst sandwich ever
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- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Kona Classic
- Favorite switch: Cherry Tactile Grey
- DT Pro Member: -
I feel bad for people who get these as a gift for their loved ones
- DustGod
- Yet another IBM snob
- Location: Italy
- Main keyboard: IBM Model F 6110344 "Battleship"
- Main mouse: Unbranded vertical mouse
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring | Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0196
Nobody's asked yet, so I'm gonna: Chyros, I hope you kept faith to your habit and used only this keyboard for a full week prior to the review. Did you?
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
I was hoping no-one would ask that :p .DustGod wrote: ↑Nobody's asked yet, so I'm gonna: Chyros, I hope you kept faith to your habit and used only this keyboard for a full week prior to the review. Did you?
I tried it for two afternoons, then I was so sick of it that I ragequit xD .
- Khers
- ⧓
- Location: Sweden
- Main keyboard: LZ CLSh
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Ergo
- Favorite switch: Buckling Springs | Topre | Nixdorf Black
- DT Pro Member: 0087
I want a video of said rage quit!
- Darkshado
- Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Main keyboard: WASD V2 MX Clears (work); M, F, Matias, etc (home)
- Main mouse: Logitech G502 (work), G502 + CST L-Trac (home)
- Favorite switch: Buckling spring, SKCM Cream Dampened, MX Clear
- DT Pro Member: 0237
Touchscreen keyboards should actually feel insulted to be compared to that: they have haptic feedback, swiping, word prediction, autocorrect (not a fan), multiple layout support, etc.
- TuxKey
- LLAP
- Location: Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Leopold FC660C, Leopold FC660M mx-clears
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Trackpad, ducky Secret (PBT mouse)
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX-clear, Topre 45gr/55gr
- DT Pro Member: 0137
hahaha your killing me oefff i'm so happy i never bought that piece of shit. i do remember seeing it ages ago.
And thinking cool idea could be nice for a kiosk or something like that.
seems to be a bigger piece of shit then ever thought possible..
ahh i'm so happy to be typing on my nice topre FC660C..
After watching this i thought what would be the cheapest US layout keyboard one could by in The Netherlands so hoped on the tweakers size..seems to be something called Gembird KB-U-103 for €4,26 +€4 shipping ahahha
And thinking cool idea could be nice for a kiosk or something like that.
seems to be a bigger piece of shit then ever thought possible..
ahh i'm so happy to be typing on my nice topre FC660C..
After watching this i thought what would be the cheapest US layout keyboard one could by in The Netherlands so hoped on the tweakers size..seems to be something called Gembird KB-U-103 for €4,26 +€4 shipping ahahha