Past meets present in the retro-inspired Rymek keyboard that pairs with tablets, phones, and monitors

[boingboingshop]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/02/past-meets-present-in-the-retr.html

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[spetrovits]

A keyboard that’s loud, expensive, tacky, and hell on my wrists? You’ve done it again, BoingBoing Store!

[anon32019413]

Fine then, don’t impress your friends with style. Let’s all wear elastic pants and velcro shoes … non-ironically.

[apalatn]

Man, that product shot is a LOT of stuff photoshop-pasted together.

The hands, keyboard, and ipad (which doesn’t have any text entry open) are all in different worlds. Pretty sure every other object (including the wood flooring(?)) is also separate.

Edit: Just saw the thing is full of blinkenlights, too. Perfect.

[Garymon]

I’m sticking with the classic:

[Jay_Kay]

Just the thing if you live in an apartment full of people who can’t leave.

[Jerry_Sneede]

Here’s my even more inconvenient concept (from 2002)

I like the working photos better (this, being a creation sans internet)

[kmoser]

[FGD135]

I have one of those

stashed away to do something similar. Someday.

[d_r]

You can have a real ball with one of those.

[GilbertWham]

Bonus points if you use OCR to input the data to the screen side of the device as it’s typed onto the paper. Fire up your heath-robinsonator! You have one week to provide a working prototype