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Yeah, I'd love a mechanical keyboard where each individual keycap was its own E-ink display. This would let you change layouts on the fly and have it reflected
by smasher164 5y ago
Yeah, I'd love a mechanical keyboard where each individual keycap was its own E-ink display. This would let you change layouts on the fly and have it reflected on the keys.
- ineedasername 5y agoThis claims to be shipping in March: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nemeio-the-customizable-global-keyboard/#/faq https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nemeio-the-customizable-g...
- smasher164 5y agoThose clear plastic key-caps do not look nice to type on. Also, this seems to be using a single E-ink screen underneath.
- ineedasername 5y agoHopefully they'd be using something slightly textured like the screens on eink note takers so it wouldn't be glass-smooth. For the single screen, wouldn't the overall effect be mostly the same? The killer for me is mostly the size. As a portable I guess it's fine, but not what I want to use for full workdays.
- smasher164 5y agoYeah, I don’t think a single screen is problematic as long as the keycaps feel alright to type on.
- withinboredom 5y ago“George, why did you send ‘I’m a panda’ in the main channel?” George: “I think someone hacked my keyboard when I went to the bathroom.”
- smasher164 5y agoHey, if your phone let you suit the keyboard to the context, I think physical keyboards need to catch up too :)
- int_19h 5y agoWhy eInk though rather than OLED? Given that keyboards usually come with a backlight these days, why make an effort to be purely reflective?
- rgoulter 5y agoI tried a customisation of a keyboard with per-key RGB LEDs, which would light up the key if it was defined on that layer. As neat as it sounded, I don't think it was very useful. Once you're use to your custom keyboard layers, you don't really look down at the keyboard.