Nokia's folding keyboard looks like a challenge
Keyboard size has proven itself a major hurdle to miniaturization. QWERTY will not be replaced, and our hands cannot simply be shrunken. This leaves us with a practical minimum of perhaps 70-90% size of a standard layout. Any smaller, and it becomes troublesome for most people to touch-type.
Today's imaginative solution to this problem comes from Nokia, which filed a patent for a particularly weird folding keyboard. Particularly cool: close inspection reveals the display itself is flexible.
[Cellpassion via Ubergizmo, etc.]
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Are they patenting the use of another Z instead of Y?
are we supposed to type with just our thumbs? otherwise it seems like it would be very difficult to position the hands for touch typing. my hands don't naturally orient themselves in that direction.
Oh man, I sure hope the production model uses old door hinges just like the ones in the reference design.
#1- Whz, zes, zes thez are. Zou got a problem with that?
i like the fact that its constructed with sturdz metal door hinges.
Also lots of nice pinch points for a small child to amputate a finger.