This probably has a use in gaming. Being able to run faster or slower depending on how deep or hard you press would be nice.
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It's great for racing games where you have gradual steering but also quicker response times than with a controller
How about haptic feedback combined with spellcheck so it's literally harder to typo.
Night, peellcheck is awesom (writen on my honor with spellchek enlaced, justo pickin the first suggesrion).
I feel like you could totally change the switch resistance with magnets. Electromagnetism goes both ways... apply a variable current to a coil in each key that repels it from or pulls it towards the base?
You could do that, but would there be any advantage over springs? That seems like a very expensive, over-engineered solution.
That sounds like an Apple product to me.
... isn't that the point of mechanical keyboards?
Yes it is an excellent idea. I'd be interested to see tests done around how this travel distance maybe actually increases or decreases any key pressure at all.
Sounds interesting. I'd imagine it would make it easier to seal off the electronics and have a drink-proof keyboard.
I have one of these, and while the switch tech is certainly neat, I haven't really come up with many good ways to use it.
Their implementation doesn't seem to support changing resistance or being sensitive to multiple levels of pressure on the key, but one way I do use it is by changing the activation distance for certain keys that I tend to press by mistake when gaming, like caps lock, so that you really need to bottom out the key to activate it. This seems to help a bit but I suspect that if I wanted to get the most out of it, I would probably need to be a much more intense gamer.
Wow nice!! Yes my issue seems to be touching a key next to where I should be hitting. So if I could even increase travel to register, I'm wondering if that would at least make my typing a bit better. Of course, there is no easy cure for dyslexic typing ;-)
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