This iPad Smart Cover-inspired iPhone keyboard looks like a winner

"Jing Yang of eico Motion Lab in China has created the Smart Keyboard"

Typo. Looks like you meant to say "Jing Yang of eico Motion Lab in China has created AN ANIMATION OF the Smart Keyboard"

Making a video about something is not impressive, except to animation students. Actually making the device pictured would be more interesting, if it were not utterly impossible.

I like how he even includes dozens of incredibly tiny LED lights inside the keyboard too, which will apparently be powered by fairy dust. This is the most ludicrous device I've ever seen. I highly doubt this could be built within the next 10 years at ANY price, let alone under $1000, or the $40 that the market would bear.

Also I am pretty sure no part of the iPhone housing is ferromagnetic, so the magnetic attachment is also a fantasy.

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Anyone else trying repeatedly to click play on the image above?

At 0:36 into the video when the cover rolls back behind the iPhone: "for Stand or Shooting Handle".
Am I the only one who wonders what this means?

Would be great to see it alive.

I use a blackberry as my primary phone just for the keyboard, and I am complete apple fanboy, but I type a lot, I have to write sometimes long emails from the mobile phone, and I can have the same performance using an iPhone.

The blackberry keyboard only have 1 layout, and have all the things need it to work. This it's a concept, but it's a very nice idea.

Hope to see a iPhone with an option of keyboard soon. I really like to use an iPhone and trow my blackberry away.

Why not just make a concept video of someone typing using merely the power of their mind?

That would be even thinner.

It can be a follow up to the concept video of the iPhone that also works as a hover board.

Thats just plain stupid. what about number keys and different layouts and characters?

What about the dirt and grime that gets on it when folded back? It gets transferred to the screen, potentially scratching it.

The biggest failure? Who would buy it?

Looks like they will have spent more time on the video for this than it will ever get in production.

reminds me of the Sony Ericsson p800 phones from yesteryear... albeit without the qwerty but it was a similar concept, it actually had little nubs that poked the touchscreen when you used the flip cover.

Yeah that's fine and dandy, until you want to use punctuation or accented characters or switch to another language or use emoji. Then what?