When I read things like “Das Keyboard is built from premium keyswitch technology” or that its “equiped with 100% blank keys mounted on precision and individually weighted key switches” or a supposed quote from a user saying “it was a joy to type and my colleagues looked at me like I was a superhero!” it all made me think that the whole thing was a sarcastic joke, like something on The Onion or PWOT.
But I clicked on the buy it button as far as I could and it looks kinda real.
Production line manager: Dammit, the slikscreen process has failed and all the keycaps have come out blank! Head of manufacturing: Well, halt the line, back it up and just run them though again Foreman: It’s worse than that; see, I was taking my break and the process has assembled and finished six thousand units - they’re lined up for packaging Production line manager: This is a frickin’ disaster. It’s not going to be much cheaper to rework them than it would be to scrap them and start again
**Sales director: **Wait a moment, I have an idea…
Metadot is an actual corporation and the registrant for daskeyboard.com is the same as for metadot.com. Also, as a programmer myself, I’ll have to admit that we’re the perfect target market for something like that.
As an aside, when I learned typing in high school, our typewriters had the letters on the keys painted over to help us learn touch typing, so there is a basis for that claim on their site.
It could so easily be a spoof… but I think it’s genuine.
And I want one!!!
It’s the cool way the black light appears on the black keyboard to let you know you’ve pressed the black Caps Lock key that’s labelled in black lettering.
As long as it has the little markers raised up on the “f” and “J” keys, I’d be down for that… I know where my keys are, I don’t look at the keyboard, and it would look sharp on the desk.
And it would intimidate our (L)users. (Starfish if you prefer, and visit that site)
I taught myself touch-typing (as a ten-year old) on an ancient school reject typewriter with blank keys. It was a real joy.
By the time I got to high school and took typing (this was in the 1970s) I was surprised to see real typewriters had writing on the keys. That’s cheating. But I was the fastest in the class.
I think that’s a big part of why when I learned the Dvorak keyboard my typing speed approximately doubled.
It’s a bitch to find hotkeys when my fingers aren’t in touch-typing position, though. I end up having to put both hands on the keyboard in order to find them.
True. My 15C is nearly twenty years old and heartily fends off all other would-be borrowers and users. Just watch out for the finance guys - they use 12Cs - same RPN, but with finance instead of science functions.
WAG: because only people who don’t use their keyboard as much as the target demographic would waste money on a wireless keyboard? Nothing like a late night debugging session only to have your keyboard start going dead on you, with no fresh AA batteries in sight.
Why wouldn’t you spend $80 on a piece of equipment you interact with directly for >8 hours a day? Actually $80 seems pretty cheap for a fancy geek keyboard. I’ve spent that much for an IBM keyboard with TrackPoint. I know people who spent much more for a Happy Hacking Keyboard.
And how many keyboards and laptops have you destroyed with cans of Coke over the years? I’ve never actually seen that happen, and I’ve never had a keyboard break before the computer it’s connected to became obsolete.
