Quirky blank Qwerty keyboard goes on sale
Touch typing just got easier. Apparently.
Many distractions can occur when you’re sat at the computer and trying to concentrate. But if the keyboard’s white letters are one of them, then a solution’s now at your fingertips.
Das Keyboard Ultimate: Direct Attached Stupidity?
The Das Keyboard Ultimate features a standard keyboard layout - except none of the keys have letters printed onto them. So each key looks... well... just like the one next to it, except for some that are differently shaped.
But the manufacturer claims that there’s actually some method to the madness. For example, it’s claimed that touch typists will be able to memorise the keyboard’s layout “within a few weeks” and then touch type like a pro, without requiring any sneaky downward glances.
The Ultimate may not have any inscriptions, but it does boast gold-plated key switches to “provide a tactile and audio click that makes typing pure joy”. Yeeesss. Although claiming that text-entry could ever be pure joy is something that most data-entry clerks would probably disagree with.
Das Keyboard Ultimate has a 2m USB cable and two integrated USB ports. It’s also Windows, Mac OS X and Linux compatible.
The Qwerty, yet quirky, keyboard is available now online for $130 (£65/€95).
COMMENTS
Perhaps I'm odd
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.
Not a QWERTY keyboard
How can it be? The keys aren't labelled.
Or, if it is, it's an AZERTY, Dvorak and SJWORP keyboard too.
Blank keys
I achieved the same effect by using the same, cheap-arse keyboard for 18 years, the letters just rub off anyway!
Good for learning
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.
@Quirkafleeg
Shouldn't that be the " " key, the " " key and the " " key?
