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Nifty idea that might have braoder applications - if don't like your current keyboard set up you can take out the offending keys and move them around as you like. Each key has its own indenitifer so the Q key knows it is a Q key no matter where on the keyboard it is. See:
www.personalkeyboard.com

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A good idea, I bet loads will be A to Z-ed I'm so used to QWERTY now though I couldn't have it different.

No doubt if I got one, someone would move my keys around when I wasn't there, and I wouldn't notice until it's too late.

i don't think its a good idea to move your keys...imagine you get a job with a different computer...then you have to start typing again

Yeah... Cube board helping the masses hunt a peck all over again. It's interesting... I just don't know that this is the best application for the technology.

it reminds me of lighting technology though. where there aren't any "switches" anymore. just little signal boxes that tell the computer chip in the light to turn it off. Gives you complet control over the lighting in your house from anywhere without have to wire it back and forth twelve times. Completely changes the ballast/lights per circuit crap we deal with nowadays. Each room could have it's own power/light circuit running directly to the breaker without cross connects. Much cleaner. It's interesting... I just don't know that this is the best application for the technology.

But, you can already remove the keys of your keyboard and change its layout. Ok, you have to pull the keys rather strong but it's already possible. Then the OS ( at least Windows ) allow you to use a localized keyboard layout.

I've used an English layout for a long time to have the [ and ] shortcuts in Photoshop. Unfortunately it caused me some troubles when I typed Ctrl+Z with the French layout in mind which occurs to be Ctrl+W with the English layout

Mathieu "POÏ" HENRI

I was expecting some sort of cubic key"board".

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I know several people that would be excited to hear about this technology. My father, for one, uses the Dvorak layout on his computers - without being relabeled at all. It is amusing to watch him try to type on my keyboard (QWERTY) on the rare occasions he needs to. It would at least make it easier for others to type on his computer - 'cause the keys would actually be what they say they are!

Me, I'm too accustomed to my outdated keyboard layout. Many people find it inefficient, but it happens to be one of the few tools that is designed for left handed people - however unintended that might have been. All of the major letters are under the left hand... So it works out pretty well for me!


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I dont see any use for relabling keys because Im used to qwerty and dont look at the keyboard when type, so I hope they come up with something more customizable than just relocating buttons. Let me give an example. I had an old split-keyboard where the '6' key was on the right side, then it broke and I had hard time getting used to the new keyboard's '6' key being on the left side. And it would be cool if I could make my Enter key bigger...

are there any pictures of this cubeboard?



[This message has been edited by asptamer (edited 11-21-2003).]

I believe that's a picture of the keyboard on the "History of Keyboard" (what country are these people from anyway?) page...

[Edit: Ah, Hong Kong... well, I guess that might explain it...]

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Even though I have only ever used qwerty, sometimes letters just seem to vanish!
In the middle of a sentence i get part way through a word and the next letter does not appear to be where I thought it was!



[This message has been edited by Taobaybee (edited 11-22-2003).]

Wow, that would have to be the most pointless piece of technology I've ever seen. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would have funded it.

For any application this makes very little sense. An input device or control device will always be specifically designed for it's intended use, be it a specific task or something as broad as a keyboard for textual input. This technology voids that principle and is only likely to complicate the technology we use as opposed to simplifying it.

Being able to customise something is not always a good thing as it adds to the learning curve a user must overcome in order to operate the device. Definatly a step in the wrong direction IMHO.

[This message has been edited by Cameron (edited 11-22-2003).]

I agree... instead of learning QWERTY, newbies will set up the keyboard alphabetically and try to type like that... standrads are useful, especially when it comes to keyboards. I dont need to know how to type on 2 or 3 or more layouts, so when I come to a computer labe at school I type with the same ease as I do at home