Thursday 16 May 2013

Multi Purpose Keyboard

Keyboard is a part of the hardware need to be used together to express what the people want. With the pace of the changing technology, it will make work become easier. The solution is the creation of the E-Inkey keyboard. E-Inkey is a keyboard whereby it could set the standard for the next generation of keyboards. Means that for any software, the icon regards to the function will appear on the keyboard. E-Ink (electrophoretic ink) is a specific proprietary type of electronic paper manufactured by E Ink Corporation.  

Source: Google Image

Every key on the keyboard has an E-ink screen on it which means they can change the icon according to the software we will see on them. So when we are in a program like Photoshop, the keys could change to Photoshop shortcuts which would help us greatly when performing action.  It does not available to Photoshop, it also can be apply to basically any other program too. The idea is so brilliant but simple too. With E-Ink being a lot cheaper than having actual screens as keys, it could easily be pretty affordable.



Below show the layer of the E-Inkey keyboard. It contains four (4) layers of different materials. 

As we can see, the icon will appear according to the type of software. The position is still the same with QWERTY keyboard. So the people may memorize it better since it use the same place. 




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