Category — Computer Keyboards

Wow, now here’s a keyboard that would certainly garner some attention at the office.  What was originally an old IBM M-15 ergonomic split keyboard was taken by a fellow known as Datamancer, and turned into this amazing modernized steampunk keyboard.

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As opposed to the worlds largest keyboard I showed you guys a few days ago, this keyboard from Brando is absolutely tiny.  While it doesn’t quite qualify as the worlds smallest keyboard, at 6.6 inches it’s about as small as I could ever handle for use with a desktop computer.

It crams in 56 keys, including caps lock, num lock, and function keys, and has a mini-USB connector on the back.

The Super Tiny Keyboard can be yours for only $25.

For the sake of this post, it should be known that I kind of enjoy the task of typing. Yeah I know thats super lame and all, and it’s not like I do it in my freetime or anything, but there’s just something intriguing to me, both from a visual as well as a auditory aspect, about watching my fingers become blurry as they quickly and effortlessly tap each correct keycap in a mechanical fashion.

So imagine my immense delight when I found THE WORLDS BIGGEST KEYBOARD!!

The keyboard is actually a interactive sculpture titled TEXTile, and was a collabortion between Jean Shin and The Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia. The sculpture is made of 22,528 recycled keycaps and 192 custom keycaps, fabric, customized active keyboard and interactive software, video projection and painted aluminum armatures. The real intersting part about the piece is that the keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and the fabricators regarding the making of the piece, which means the sculpture actually documents its own making.

More pics after the jump.

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The tangle of cables and wires beneath my desk looks like a cluster of poisonous snakes. Doesn’t everyone’s? I have been searching for a clean, elegant, totally neat solution for years, but none of the ones I looked at seemed good enough for me to pull out my wallet and dig out a credit card.

That was until I stumbled upon Bluelounge’s SpaceStation, an organizer that can satisfy even me. (I’m a hard sell—an early adopter with lofty expectations.)

Space Station is perfect even for perfectionists. Especially those who use laptops as desktops when they’re home.

It takes up little space. In fact, it’s downright inconspicuous—and easy to clean around. It lays nearly as flat as your desk while still leaving enough space beneath to keep everything cool—in every sense. It has a cool design. (Funny, it doesn’t look like an organizer.)

It has room for USBs (ditch that hub!), iPods, scanners, printers, laptop connectors, cameras, and even paper. For just $79.95 each, it’s just what I’ve been waiting for. I’m glad I was patient.

These days it’s good to know that no matter what your taste or required function, there is a computer keyboard that can accommodate your special needs.   There are eye dazzling keyboards for those who prefer form over function, there’s ergonomic keyboards for those of us looking to increase efficiency and boost productivity, there’s even some weird ones that don’t really seem to serve any function at all.

No matter what you’re looking for, there’s a keyboard for that.  So if you’re on the prowl check out this excellent compilation of Cool Computer Keyboards for Geeks.