"Wouldn't a $5 keyboard and a $2 bottle of Wite-Out (Tipp-Ex for you Brits) prove just as effective?"
There's no way I'd take TippEx to either of my old IBM Model M keyboards, although this thing does look uncannily like the IBM 'Preferred' keyboard I use at home.
I achieved the same effect with a black permanent marker.
"Paris, because she's permanently blank too." - hliarious
WTF, who blacks out their keys? I haven't looked at my keyboard to type in about 15 years, but that doesn't mean I want the key names removed... it's not a piano. And thank you Mavis Beacon, for freeing me from hunting and pecking all those years ago...
Maybe it would help with some pesky kids that won't leave daddy's gaming computer alone... but a good butt whoopin' would do a lot more.
In the light of my typing prowess, or lack of it, I think I shall stick to the current arrangements. I can cock things up quite adequately already, thank you!!!
I learned to touch type on a typewriter (note for the experience-impaired: a mechanical device for squeezing ink in letter shapes from a ribbon onto paper) without key legends. It did have colour coded key caps, though, as a guide to which finger was meant to be used. A great learning aid - I've never looked back since. Or down. Much.
Perhaps I'm the odd one here {being an Evil Penguin-Shagging Communist and all that} but I look mainly at the keyboard when I'm typing, not the screen -- I can have confidence that the key I watched myself press will cause the letter or punctuation mark I wanted to appear.
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Quirky blank Qwerty keyboard goes on sale
Iain Paterson
A fool and his money #
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 14:49 GMT
Wouldn't a $5 keyboard and a $2 bottle of Wite-Out (Tipp-Ex for you Brits) prove just as effective?
If you must have the clacking sound of the keyboard then apply the whiteout to that old IBM keyboard you've got stashed in the cupboard.
Paris, because she's permanently blank too
Anonymous Coward
DISASTER AREA #
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 16:28 GMT
I imagine Hotblack Desiato will be interested in this one.
Simon Ward
Re: A fool and his money #
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 16:28 GMT
"Wouldn't a $5 keyboard and a $2 bottle of Wite-Out (Tipp-Ex for you Brits) prove just as effective?"
There's no way I'd take TippEx to either of my old IBM Model M keyboards, although this thing does look uncannily like the IBM 'Preferred' keyboard I use at home.
I achieved the same effect with a black permanent marker.
Anonymous Coward
Sorry to be boring #
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 16:49 GMT
I guess despite the quirky marketing, this is being pushed as a keyboard that can be labelled up according to specific needs. Think video editing etc.
Kudos for sporting what appears to be a 100% standard layout, unlike most keyboards currently available claiming to.
I wonder if Dell are eyeing them up, so they can fix future keyboard layout screw-ups with a bottle of thinners and a driver disk?
Anonymous Coward
where's the windows button? #
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 20:33 GMT
"Paris, because she's permanently blank too." - hliarious
WTF, who blacks out their keys? I haven't looked at my keyboard to type in about 15 years, but that doesn't mean I want the key names removed... it's not a piano. And thank you Mavis Beacon, for freeing me from hunting and pecking all those years ago...
Maybe it would help with some pesky kids that won't leave daddy's gaming computer alone... but a good butt whoopin' would do a lot more.
Ed
Ummmm #
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 23:41 GMT
Anyone else get teh impression that these guys got sent a bunch of blank keys by mistake?
Quirkafleeg
Re: Sorry to be boring #
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 23:56 GMT
“Kudos for sporting what appears to be a 100% standard layout, unlike most keyboards currently available claiming to.”
Not 100% standard. The left Shift key's too wide, the # key's in the ‘wrong’ place, and the \ key is missing…
The Jon
i've fotr won of tghese... #
Posted Tuesday 15th July 2008 10:11 GMT
...and irt's bloofuy byrilloianr. My typingf jas bever beem vetter and quicker. How fif i ever ger by before?
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Francis Offord
Really Wilberforce. #
Posted Tuesday 15th July 2008 10:11 GMT
In the light of my typing prowess, or lack of it, I think I shall stick to the current arrangements. I can cock things up quite adequately already, thank you!!!
Anonymous Coward
@Quirkafleeg #
Posted Tuesday 15th July 2008 11:14 GMT
Shouldn't that be the " " key, the " " key and the " " key?
Jonathan Richards
Good for learning #
Posted Tuesday 15th July 2008 16:07 GMT
I learned to touch type on a typewriter (note for the experience-impaired: a mechanical device for squeezing ink in letter shapes from a ribbon onto paper) without key legends. It did have colour coded key caps, though, as a guide to which finger was meant to be used. A great learning aid - I've never looked back since. Or down. Much.
Anonymous Coward
Not a QWERTY keyboard #
Posted Wednesday 16th July 2008 00:32 GMT
How can it be? The keys aren't labelled.
Or, if it is, it's an AZERTY, Dvorak and SJWORP keyboard too.
JB
Blank keys #
Posted Wednesday 16th July 2008 00:32 GMT
I achieved the same effect by using the same, cheap-arse keyboard for 18 years, the letters just rub off anyway!
A J Stiles
Perhaps I'm odd #
Posted Wednesday 16th July 2008 13:16 GMT
Perhaps I'm the odd one here {being an Evil Penguin-Shagging Communist and all that} but I look mainly at the keyboard when I'm typing, not the screen -- I can have confidence that the key I watched myself press will cause the letter or punctuation mark I wanted to appear.