Google Japan Puts Whole Console on One Long Stick

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Several years ago, Google Japan began cooking up bizarre novelty keyboards as an annual April Fools’ Day prank. Most of the creations, which include a working model of Google’s cellular Gboard keyboard wrapped around a cup, are greater or much fewer sight gags. They additionally don’t appear to be sure about April anymore. But this year’s advent would possibly definitely have some advantage for these of us who war with cluttered, messy desks.

Despite having to get right of entry to a stack of keyboards providing the whole lot from whisper-quiet chiclet-style keys to mechanical monsters loud ample to wake the dead, I have a tendency to stick to the keyboard on my laptop computer for the easy purpose that it takes up much less area on my desk—a desk that’s forever cluttered with gadgets, cameras, video games, and an ever-growing mountain of backup drives. There’s no room for an alternative, or at least I assumed there wasn’t, till I noticed the Gboard stick.

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What Google Japan has finished this time around is clearly re-arrange the QWERTY keyboard into one long strip, like the keys on a piano, producing a bodily keyboard prototype that measures a whopping 65 inches across. But it is additionally solely roughly 2.5 inches deep, permitting it to without problems squeeze onto the bottom side of even the most atrociously cluttered workspaces. 

Google Japan touts some different questionable benefits to the Gboard Stick, consisting of that it naturally encourages the consumer to stretch their palms and legs to attain each and every final key, presents a probably less difficult way for hunt and peck typists to memorize the vicinity of keys. Its dimension additionally supposedly approves two humans to simply use it at the identical time, paving the way for e-mail duets. 

If you don’t suppose the Gboard Stick is a completely ludicrous idea, you can head over to GitHub, the place Google Japan has shared all the open-source documents that went into its creation, making it less difficult for others to both construct one for themselves or even choose for a customized model with an alternate layout.