Touchfire Keyboard Makes iPad Typing More Practical
The main thing holding me back from owning any kind of tablet PC has always been a lack of a workable keyboard. As it is right now, the iPad (or any other mobile touch-screen device) is essentially just a really big smartphone – minus the phone part of course.
Why would I want to lug something like that around when I have an iPhone that does pretty much the same stuff, with more or less the same lack of a tactile typing mechanism?
Well, two inventors came up with a solution called the Touchfire screen-top keyboard. They built it from the ground up with very little money or resources available to them, but now they have already raised over $100k on kickstart.com to get this thing off the ground. So far it seems to be a pretty highly anticipated solution to the tablet typing dilemma.
TouchFire puts the “touch” back into typing on an iPad. You can now feel where the keys are and rest your fingers on the home row, so you can type as fast and accurately as you can on a laptop. You can even type without looking at the screen. TouchFire cushions your fingers as you type, something both touch-typists and two-finger typists really appreciate. Typing on an iPad is no longer a pain!
TouchFire is ultra-thin and weighs less than an ounce. It attaches to the inside of the iPad cover and folds with the cover, so you can always keep TouchFire with your iPad without it getting in the way.
TouchFire puts the “touch” back into typing on an iPad. You can now feel where the keys are and rest your fingers on the home row, so you can type as fast and accurately as you can on a laptop. You can even type without looking at the screen. TouchFire cushions your fingers as you type, something both touch-typists and two-finger typists really appreciate. Typing on an iPad is no longer a pain!
TouchFire is ultra-thin and weighs less than an ounce. It attaches to the inside of the iPad cover and folds with the cover, so you can always keep TouchFire with your iPad without it getting in the way. TechCruch.com
The secret patent-pending sauce is a group of small microstructures in each key that allow fingers to rest on them at any angle without touching the iPad. When the device does finally go to market (as of now, an undefined date), Isaac expects it to retail for about $45. – Mashable.com
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The keyboard is about twice as thin as a credit card and only weighs one ounce! That’s pretty minimal if you ask me.
The coolest thing about this thing is that it supposedly feels just like a keyboard. For something this thin and compact, that is quite a remarkable if it proves to be as responsive as they claim it to be. I may rethink getting myself an iPad someday if I could get a workable solution to the relatively primitive touch screen finger-mashing…err…I mean typing.