NanoraptorTyping re-imagined as a dynamic context-free experience for maximum user adaptive input flexibility, total surface interaction and pure visual feedback.
Martin
Vacuolic@NanoRaptor nightmare
mjdxp@NanoRaptor i imagine each row is just one super long key that would be able to detect where you press down on it
Orb 2069@mjdxp
Maybe something like old cellphones, where you have to tap multiple times QWER(T) ASDFG(H) QW(E) (Q) QWERTY(U) QWERTYU(I) ZX(C) ASDFGHJ(K) ....
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Maybe something like old cellphones, where you have to tap multiple times QWER(T) ASDFG(H) QW(E) (Q) QWERTY(U) QWERTYU(I) ZX(C) ASDFGHJ(K) ....
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Hubert Figuière@NanoRaptor touch typing
Ken Milmore@NanoRaptor Uncle Clive Sinclair would have approved, I guess.
Peter@NanoRaptor Each line is actually a Touch Bar, right? 😬🫣
mirabilos@peter_sc @NanoRaptor thisnis something I’d trust Apple to make alright. Enshittification pure.
Marcin Wichary@NanoRaptor I know you were aiming for Touch Bars maybe, but my brain immediately imagined MacBook Neo with a membrane keyboard à la Atari 400.
Tor Lillqvist@NanoRaptor The F key row should also be a continuous surface. Who hasn’t longed for a F4.2 function key?
Andrew@tml @NanoRaptor “press F𝜋 for help”
make@tml @NanoRaptor
All keys and words should be analog scale and not descreet and digital...
Because things are often quite hard to describe...
All keys and words should be analog scale and not descreet and digital...
Because things are often quite hard to describe...
George BWhat people really mean when they say "touch typing"
Pile Of Garbage@NanoRaptor when Apple makes this real I am having you arrested
isaiah@pileofgarbage @NanoRaptor crimes against Human-ID
cholling
SnowFox
penryu@snowfox @cholling @NanoRaptor @pileofgarbage
If this were real, ALL the keys would be touchbars, except the `Fn` key.
Bernard SheppardI read that as "Oops, all AI Touch bars" and that is what we need - #AI enshittifiction
potentially hazardous object@pileofgarbage @NanoRaptor imagine having apple's lawyers intervene for you in your war crimes trial though
Bel Polaris@NanoRaptor Thanks! I hate it :D
/ˈstɑːr.dʌst/ - 0x4C6F75@NanoRaptor Thanks! I hate it! 
virtualmarc@NanoRaptor I hope it comes with a feature to switch the keyboard layout randomly after every typed key.
MarkAssPandi@NanoRaptor To reduce eye strain while looking at input panels in the dark, we made touch panel black. We also removed pabel separators for smoother experience
Florian Wesch@NanoRaptor @MarkAssPandi actually, have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks. Its TouchStream was basically a keyboard just like that. And Apple ended up purchasing their patents. The typing experience was mixed :-}
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)@NanoRaptor Thank god for the alt text. I had no idea what I was seeing
stop giving those idiots ideas....
Ciara 💖@NanoRaptor honestly the way apple is headed (aesthetics before usability), this isn't beyond possibility 😬
Andrew Hinton@NanoRaptor “Seamless design” 😆
R.L. Dane 
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Honestly not much more cursed than the original 2015 MacBook keyboards.
Dear Apple,
Key travel was NOT SUPPOSED TO BE MEASURED in Angstroms.
DHeadshot's AltRemember the keyboard from Russia in the Mid/Late naughties that had mechanical keys, but the top of every keycap was a small OLED screen? "Das Keyboard," or something?
I dare Apple to put that on a friggin' laptop. 😁
@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor well, you’ll need that for the regression into hieroglyphic‡ writing most of society is currently rushing towards…
‡) called “Emoji” these days, but same difference, except instead of no less than three perfectly workable hieroglyphs, they use the aubergine emoji to hide the meaning and annoy cooks
@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor also, why does FixedMisc have so much nicer crocheting symbols than Gentium?
(Though, I suspect that Gentium just lacks it and Firefox falls back to DejaVu Sans, given the look.)
It's also useful for accents, alternate layouts,and international modes!
@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor these are largely static, and you can print them on keycaps.
BTDT. It works better if the grid around the keycaps is in a decidedly distinct colour, e.g. light compared to black keycaps with white enlasering.
@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor It doesn’t work as well when the keys and the grid are both dark, as the individual keycaps don’t have a distinguishable border, like in this photo (ignore the cat lying across the table, it’s the lower laptop’s):
Wow, that's fancy.
Also, ignore a cat?? Do you know me? Have we ever spoken before? 🤣😻
Patrick Georgi@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor "Das Keyboard" was a keyboard with unmarked keys. russian + oled sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard (bonus: the WP article also mentions existing eink models and Apple's patent office posture in that space)
Ah, yes, that was it.
MixelsLab
Trammell Hudson@NanoRaptor typical Apple, just copying Lenovo's innovative no key keyboard technology
Michael Gemar@th @NanoRaptor In Italy they released the gnocchi keyboard.
dan 💾@NanoRaptor I saw a rumour that the Neo 2 is going to have this keyboard but without the backlighting, to save on costs.
qwazix@NanoRaptor in the next iteration the latin letters will be replaced with newly designed proprietary apple glyphs.
Ozzelot 
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Can it run five Dooms?
Can it run five Dooms?
Colin@NanoRaptor when do we get the Mixtur Trautonium version?
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (exercise #7)
Mark J. Blair@colinstu @NanoRaptor Vibrato could only make my code better.
Dana Fried@NanoRaptor given the tactile response of the average Mac laptop's keys, this wouldn't feel appreciably different
Charlie Stross@NanoRaptor This is basically a fretless electric guitar, right?
Tyrone Slothrop@cstross @NanoRaptor Nice! You could have accents just above their letters, and umlauts slightly to the left or right.
We could use different phonetic systems as layouts. So many possibilities!
@slothrop @cstross @NanoRaptor Everybody's text and code will suddenly have the endearing qualities of a jr. high school string orchestra.
Kat S@cstross @NanoRaptor I had a "well, ackshually" reply typed up about MIDI controllers, but... no, you're right. That's basically what it is: a keyboard only Guthrie Govan could love.
jbaggs@cstross @NanoRaptor When you want to hit the characters in between.
Trezzer (aka Helvedeshunden)@NanoRaptor Now I want the equivalent of a microtonal keyboard where all the accented characters get their own, smaller keys 
hobbs@NanoRaptor
this is violence
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