Keyboard, which today we offer the world's leading manufacturers, hardly changed dramatically since the introduction of this type of device. However, many users are content with the most simple and standard, in terms of additional options for text input devices that do not have any protection from spilled coffee or tea, or diaphragm mechanism keys or LED backlight or advanced media management. However, not the highest demand for expensive peripherals does not prevent enthusiasts try to create something revolutionary that would really be interested in active PC users. It refers to such start-ups appeared on Kickstarter project «101touch».
101touch - is a fully touch keyboard, which can be called next-generation devices, given the potential inherent in the development and her versatility. To understand the concept, without resorting to marketing ploys and description on Kickstarter, enough to submit an elongated horizontal touch screen, which becomes your working surface for text input, and for a full PC control.
The idea of creating 101touch appeared in the moment of awareness of developers that all types of commercially available keyboards do not have enough flexibility in use, and the limit of their capacity is strictly limited framework. In this case, almost all of the new options are a consequence of complicating the design additional controls - integrated into the keyboard touchpad, all sorts of controls or based on multiple key combinations. The latter clearly not conducive to comfortable and convenient operation, given the characteristics of the software.
As for the technical characteristics of the product in question, the production version of 101touch plans to equip the sensor matrix diagonal of 18.3 ", as well as ARM-based processors. As a software shell for keyboard involve proprietary platform 101touch, created on the basis of the operating system Android. The video below is demonstrated to work with several different looks prototype "Keyboard of the Future", which, in fact, is a full-fledged multimedia device, such as modern tablets:
In this 101touch equipped with internal memory of 16 GB, as well as its own battery. Connecting to a PC using a wireless Bluetooth-connection or a standard USB-connection. It is necessary to clarify that presented in a promotional video prototype consists of two displays due to technical and financial constraints in the design. The production model of the device will look like a gadget depicted in renderers.
