why do we not have cheap keyboards (without fancy meme switches) that have flat e-ink key caps?
>Use macro keyboard for software you work for
>Customize the functionality of every key
>Customize the e-ink display of every key
WHY DOESN'T THIS EXIST?
People don't care that much. Plus, people do care a lot about their keyboards usually touch type, rendering the letters on the caps useless.
>>54511059
Because if you have a keyboard, you have a screen already.
We don't need screens in everything.
>>54511059
I like the idea but I don't think it'd be cheap. Every key would have some kind of electronics and that'd probably cost a lot to produce. What I don't get is why every decent cheap mechanical keyboard has a shitty font (my keyboard included)
>>54511092
I'm not talking about a keyboard you use to type. a keyboard dedicated for work.
>>54511095
>he doesn't even get the point
>>54511160
I get it. I use software with a ton of keyboard shortcuts every day.
It's less hassle to just learn what the shortcuts are, than to have a keyboard like that imo
Remember this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ5rX6WpxTk
>>54511221
having anything other than e-ink on the caps is just retarded, and makes it overpriced
>>54511059
Because it's a useless gimmick that would be extremely expensive
because you can just put stickers on your keyboard
besides, isn't e-ink kinda expensive?
>>54511391
>stickers
it's about being able to customize and use the same keyboard across multiple software.
>put stickers on keyboard for software X
>done working
>need to do something else
>launch software Y
>keyboard is now useless
That would require a software layer in the keyboard and it would be too slow for fast typers.
>>54511517
read >>54511124
>>54511124
>I'm not talking about a keyboard you use to type. a keyboard dedicated for work.
Then you're not talking about a keyboard. A slab that offers a changing interface of buttons that perform tasks is called a fucking touchscreen
>>54511533
I don't understand. You don't type fast on a work keyboard?
Or you mean using it like some sort of control panel with lots of functions?
>>54511568
>some sort of control panel with lots of functions?
yes
>>54511059
What ebook reader is that?
>>54511555
Okay.do i get you right?
You want a board with keys on it, but instead of painted letters the keys have an e-ink layer. So i open up word and the e-ink displays my normal qwertz-keyboard. When i launch photoshop the e-ink display now shows instead the e button the cuttingsymbol and by pressing it I select the cutting tool.
>>54511636
>When i launch photoshop the e-ink display now shows instead the e button the cuttingsymbol and by pressing it I select the cutting tool.
for example, but this keyboard or controller, will be used not as a replacement for a normal typing keyboard, but only for applications like Adobe premier, after effects, Lightroom, audio software etc.
>>54511059
>looking at your keyboard
The only use would be non-standard function keys like on the left of >>54511221
But you should learn the hotkey combinations for your software, anyway.
>>54511708
>non-standard function keys
read the thread, that's exactly what I mean
>>54511059
Tactile feedback is only really useful if you can touch-type. If it's for anything other than touch-typing, you may as well use a software-keyboard on a touch-screen device, which is much cheaper and more versatile. In some very special cases it might be justified to have such a keyboard, such as in programs which permit touch-typing but also provide you with a myriad of extra functions beyond the scope of muscle memory, usually accessible by modifier keys. Emacs seems like an obvious example. Even if the keyboard may be justified in this case, you may still have an even greater cost of developing the system that will decide what to show on the keys.
>>54511221
>$1800
kill me
>Wait a year for it to mature
>>54511734
Can you explain a specific scenario where it would be useful?
For example, a fast food worker has constantly changing 'buttons' on a touch screen.
In fact, anything of this design is often formed as a touch screen.
For technical professionals, you generally use a standard keyboard with key combinations for all of the functions.
For example, the key chord in Visual Studio to comment a whole section is ctrl+K, C. There are literally 100's of combinations like that. Not really intuitive. You just have to learn your software.
>>54511734
do you have short term memory loss?
also what is google?
https://www.sonderdesign.com/
>>54512231
FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
>>54512153
the time may never come ;c
ITT we discuss Web Browsers
>Which Web Browser do you use?
>Why?
>>54513498
lol posted at the wrong chrome tab
>>54513533
what is this meme
>>54511059
That would utterly rock. Imagine custom keymap icons for games and specific programs. This needs to happen.
>>54513463
where is safari?
>>54515457
no longer on windows
>>54515471
yeah but v.5.1 is still available. it must be installed! NEED MOAR BROWSERS
>>54515457
In the trash where it belongs
>>54515471
So it's not a browser? This is a technology board, Windows is irrelevant.
>>54515812
that's a screenshot of windows shortcuts you computer illiterate retard
>>54511416
2 keyboards. K710's are like $5.
>>54515872
>keep an entire keyboard around for every single program you use
are you retarded? how is that practical? even if keyboards were free
>>54515831
And?
>>54516561
>why isn't there a shortcut to a browser that doesn't exist anymore for that OS in that screenshot?
>>54516655
>browser thread
>leaving out a common browser
No excuse, it's not that difficult to download the last Safari release for Windows.
2nd keyboard
Custom control maps for each program
script that launches the control map when you launch a program.
>>54516703
except 1) it's not a browser thread
and 2) there's no reason to include it
>>54516885
This >>54513463 was intended to be a new thread you moron.
>>54516703
>installing no longer supported browser
>this is not a browser thread
hang yourself.
The customers willing to buy such a thing would probably all know how to touch type and navigate blind already, even on different layouts.
It's a theoretically possible product with a practically inexistent audience.
