OLED display keyboard concept

My keyboard "iKeyPro" has already been demonstrated to a leading computer manufacturer and a keyboard manufacturer almost a year ago and is almost ready for mass production. It is patent pending and has been for some time. We have deliberately refriained from opening our website to this point, but shortly will be online. It displays EVERY keyboard layout for Mac/PC including most languages that are system loaded. Call me for more info

Subject: new keyboard From: holland -at- CVAX -dot- IPFW -dot- INDIANA -dot- EDU Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 18:50:31 EST Okay, I am tired of the paradigms discussion, already. Lemme throw out something else.... In the beginning, keyboards were a display (as well as an input) device: Each key displayed what would appear if you pressed it. Then somebody got fancy and invented the Shift key, but the keyboard remained _fairly_ WYSIWYG: The shifted numbers produced punctuation, but it, too, appeared on the key. Then along came computers, and with them came lots of Shift keys (Alt, Ctrl, Esc, &c). And all was lost. WHAT IF somebody developed a keyboard that recaptured the display function: When the computer is off, the keyboard is BLANK. When turned on, the keyboard display is loaded by whatever program (or op system) the computer is using. Thus, the A key would routinely display "A" but if the Ctrl key were pressed and Ctrl-A meant "Abort," the keyboard display (LCD, probably) would say "Abort." The f---ing F-keys would display WHATEVER THEY WOULD DO AT ANY GIVEN TIME! (The COMPUTER knows what it'll do when Shift-F9 is pressed; it can damn well tell us!) Think of the $million$ in training that would be saved. Think of how much easier it'd be to write manuals. Think of how happy the software writers'd be, since they'd have to create (and sell!) new versions with keyboard drivers built into them. The template saleshumen, of course, would have a fit; but the rest of us'd be on Easy Street. Any budding E.E. types out there who wanna get rich and famous? -------------- Found here: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/archives/9303/techwhirl-9303-00135.html

hm, this already existed in the 90ies. i cant remember who did it, or what displays were used. but i liked the idea already back then. the "ancient" idea, was more about foreign (like cyrillic) fonts. saw it on a trading show in germany and read about it.

i love it, but... my hands & wrists & fingers get all crampy whenever i'm working on a keyboard that isn't ergonomic/split. am i the only one? i would think since most of us are constantly using the keyboard we would have all adopted some sort of super keyboard that keeps us all keyboarding at the most optimum of levels. maybe it's just me.

I agree, this is absolutely amazing. Since I work with design apps on a daily basis for work, this would be great for switching fonts. Sometimes I want a single letter that looks really cool when enlarged, but it's a pain having to type the complete alphabet and changing the fonts manually. Also, since I bought a Macally IceKey a while back, I could never switch back to a keyboard with raised keys. I love the low-profile "laptop" keys so much and this keyboard looks like an in-between point. I think the older I get, I find certain tech products sexy. Is this normal? Fishes, narco.

wow, thats smart

This has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen. They should pitch this to Logitech or someone big so that they can get this thing into mass production, and get it into mass production NOW. I'd pay $200 for this... no question.

I must have this - I must have this My tempered consumerism is quickly abating, I am lost in throes of pure materialistic rapture!!! GIVE ME - IT MUST BE MIIIIINNNEEE !!!!!!!!!

LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT!!!! HOW MUCH??? I DON"T CARE! WANT!

Holy crap! This is awesome...I don't have any other words for it...awesome. I will buy one the second they make it.