We’re all suckers for something. I’ve weaned myself off of expensive things, for the most part. (I did just spend a few hundred bucks on LEGO, but at least it was a good deal. Or so I tell myself.) But a few lusts linger.
Numeric keypads, though. Boy. Maybe it’s from years spent playing first-person shooters that required all nine keys and the halo of operators before we collectively realized that WASD gave even more options*. Or perhaps the time I scored the office record at the temporary agency on the ten-key test. Whatever it is, I find them irresistible, despite that I have a perfectly functional one on the very keyboard from which I am now inputing.
I’ll resist this AKP-170 mouse from Adesso, which hides a ten-key with oh-so-luxurious backspace key, pined after by data entry professionals everywhere. Not without shedding a single metallic tear, mind you. Because not only is this thing available for sale, but it can be purchased by the case.
Product Page [Adesso via CrunchGear]
* Thanks, Tribes! VAV!
Now if they’d only make one with a hex keypad, us assembler geeks will be fullfiled.
http://www.amazon.com/Adesso-AKP-170-Keypad-integrated-transparent/dp/B000TUES86/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197034743&sr=8-1
There’s the Amazon page, if anyone is interested in buying – looks like Adesso doesn’t sell direct through their page. $19.99 isn’t too shabby, though I shrivel at the idea of spending that money on something I’d be using primarily at work.
Let’s see – flipping up the cover to get at the keypad is probably going to make mousing very awkward. It’s entirely useless for anyone with a numeric keypad on their keyboards already. And it looks like they threw ergonomics out the window.
Loose the flip, put in some support ridges to keep the ergonomic feel, and sell some keyboards without the extra keypad – then I’ll consider buying it.
This was designed for the laptop user. Most laptops do not have keypads built into the keyboard. So anyone thinking this is for a desktop that already has a built in keybad on the keyboard like almost all do is an idiot!