Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: keyboard porn! Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 160 Message-ID: References: <33c498ee-77bb-4e6d-b332-477a4fe6e5c0@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <6211f48e-197a-4639-9be8-673f0cfb20ec@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <87mxhrtusy.fsf@pangea.home.gustad.com> <87lixbv5l1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87hb7zl4c7.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <9a7e964b-c9cd-4140-97ed-390916927774@s16g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1308664849 26715 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2011 14:00:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.100 Safari/534.30,gzip(gfe) Dear keyboard fans, Some new discoveries for you Happy Hacking keyboard fans and other mechanical keyboard fans, including photos of a few mysterious, fantastic, split, ergonomic keyboards from Japan. =E3=80=88Keyboard News: Ducky Keyboard, KBC Poker, Truly Ergonomic Keyboard= =E3=80=89 http://xahlee.org/kbd/2011-06_keyboard_news.html plain text version follows, but as Alice said, =E2=80=9Cwhat is the use =E2= =80=A6, without pictures =E2=80=A6?=E2=80=9D. --------------------------------- Keyboard News: Ducky Keyboard, KBC Poker, Truly Ergonomic Keyboard Xah Lee, 2011-06-18 Several keyboard updates. Completely rewritten: [14]Keyboard Ghosting & N-key Rollover: How Many Keys Your Keyboard Can Take?. KBC Poker Keyboard For those who love the Happy Hacking Keyboard ([15]Happy Hacking Keyboard review), there's good news. There's seems to be a competitor, called "KBC Poker keyboard", from Taiwan. school girl keyboard yea0999 According to keyboard geek reviewers, her tongue got stuck in her braces due to the weight of this keyboard. KBC Poker keyboard "KBC Poker keyboard" KBC Poker keyboard 2 "KBC Poker keyboard" [16]Source deskthority.net Note the dark engraved key labels. This is much more expensive than your Microsoft or Logitech mass-marketed keyboards. KBC Poker vs HHKB keyboard [17]Happy Hacking (HHKB) vs KeyBoard Cheer (KBC) Poker. * KBC Poker Review (2011-02-12) By Gasbag Guru (aka Sixty). @ [18]Source deskthority.net * KBC Poker @ [19]Source keyboardporn.com * Review: KBC Poker - webwit's take (2011-02-19) By webwit. @ [20]Source deskthority.net Here's a forum in China about this keyboard: [21]bbs.kbc-china.com. KBC keyboard banner It's funny. The name KBC stand for: "the Key Board to Cheer you up". Nice counter to Happy Hacking. Ducky Keyboard For those who love full-sized keyboard with mechanical switches (e.g. Das and many others) , there's Ducky keyboard, again from Taiwan. (Cherry Brown switch, Cherry Blue for the numerical keypad keys. Model DK9008) The company site is [22]duckykeyboard.com. Ducky keyboard DK9008 "Ducky keyboard DK9008" [23]Source mognet.no-ip.info This keyboard seems to feature full n-key rollover. (See: [24]Keyboard Ghosting & N-key Rollover: How Many Keys Your Keyboard Can Take?.) Also, note the black-on-black key labels. Seems the buyer can choose the label or key colors. * Ducky Mechanical Keyboard (2011-02-13) @ [25]Source www.darkmirage.com * Another review, by Dotan Cohen, at [26]Source geekhack.org (no pics) Truly Ergonomic Keyboard Ever Coming Out? For those who love [27]Kinesis Contoured Keyboard or otherwise ergonomic keyboard with mechanical switches, there's Truly Ergonomic keyboard. (pics at [28]Fancy Ergonomic Keyboards) There's rumor that this keyboard never went into production, and the company address is fake. So, be careful and do your own research before you put your money in for a pre-order. See this thread: [29]Source www.overclock.net. According to Truly Ergonomic's website: =C2=ABWe are currently estimating the pre-order delivery date for July 2011.=C2=BB. That's next month. We shall soon see. Datadesk Tech Smartboard Keyboard I would consider this the best key layout, ever. smartboard keyboard "Smartboard" [30]amazon [31]Source www.datadesktech.com If this keyboard is well-built, i think it is then better than [32]Kinesis Contoured Keyboard and "Truly Ergonomic Keyboard". On par with [33]Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. According to reviewers at Amazon, the company Datadesk Tech seems to be around as early as 1990s, and the company seems to be one-man running in basement. Misc Fancy Ergonomic Keyboards utron-keyboard UTRON. [34]Source deskthority.net top keyboard [35]Source deskthority.net japanese ergonomic keyboards =C2=AB=C2=A5=C2=AC=C2=BB=C2=B9=C2=A5=C2=A7=C2=AE=C2=B0=C2=A3=C2=B8gasita= MKi-6Bo-6Do('83 =C2=B4~)._=C2=A6ni=C2=B3,_=C2=B3ni=C2=B3wo=C2=AEsiKi-6=C2=AEnoe5yasusato, _=C2=A6=C2=B3=C2=A4=C2=B5to=C2=B0wo=C2=B5de=C2=A5dekiruKi-6niyori,_na=C2= =A5=C2=AC=C2=A5wo=C2=BEsitatoi5u5._=C2=AAnadoni=C2=AD saretahoka ,_PC-8801/9801=C2=A8,_Windows=C2=A8ga=C2=BA=C2=B2sareta=C2=BB [36]Source pc.watch.impress.co.jp plum keyboard "PLUM keyboard" ('www.plum.bz)' marquardt mini ergo keyboard "Marquardt Mini-Ergo" (1992) [37]Source keyboardporn.com --------------------------------- can anyone identify those split keyboard from Japan? I think those make the best emacs keyboard. Xah