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Stars_And_Garters t1_jc80tpg wrote

I am a full time programmer, full time work from home. I'm struggling to understand the use of this. Coding from bed with a giant monitor? The problem with typing while you're walking is you can't see what you're typing or check your results...

Am I being a dunce?

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januarytwentysecond t1_jc7zvlz wrote

Everyone in this thread has insufficient fear of carpal tunnel syndrome. $400 may be too much for this thing, but dear god I need a controller-ergo keyboard in my life. Every time I touch a mouse, the right half of my wrist files a complaint. My dad just got surgery on his elbow and I'm staring down the barrel of a lifetime of professional computer usage. If I keep using a flat keyboard, my hands are doomed. I'm going to be in the retirement home playing starcraft with my feet if this keeps up.

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WontFixMySwypeErrors t1_jc7zv7f wrote

Now that it's proven, I'd love to see a usable one, even still as a hobby project.

Something like a non-backlit tft display, perhaps in vertical orientation for coding, would make things much more usable, and there's room in that case for many times more battery capacity.

A similar soc should still have enough grunt to run Linux and an IDE, and now you've got a decent dev box with the same or more runtime.

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mendeleyev1 t1_jc7y3ua wrote

Can we not just have a keyboard that operates like our phones. Such that it has a digital display and we can just swipe our fingers over the letters and predictive AI figures out what I meant?

Test retyping using that on my iPhone 7.

Can we nor just have a keyboard that operates like our phones. Such b that it has a digital display and we b can just b swipe or fingers over the letters and predictive ai figures out wh at I meant?

Not bad. Can we just have that if they wanna do dumb peripherals?

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spanman112 t1_jc7y1mi wrote

i'm one of the weirdo's that games with a mouse and keypad that had a thumbstick on it (Razer Orbweaver), so i'm always interested to see new tech that is similar. But my god that is the worst attempt at this i've ever seen. Comfort, design, ease of use, there's not one redeeming quality of that thing other than it is indeed, a keyboard. So if you want a 400 keyboard that doubles as a rage inducing controller that will give you CT, this is the keyboard for you!

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Palachrist t1_jc7y0lu wrote

LGR will test this out in 30 years and tell us it was pretty cool but the practicality just isn’t there. This isn’t to downplay his reviews, only to make fun of these kinds of gimmicks. I’m fairly positive he’s done atleast one device similar to this if it hasn’t been done by the various other tech channels.

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