Magnetic levitation adjustable keyboards coming to next gen laptops.

[grizzer]

Miscellaneous stuff shown at computrex in Taipei, TW last week:

You may know magnetic levitation, or maglev, as one of those weirdly ethereal "future things." One of the technologies that we all collectively know from movies and television but have only figured out a few useful applications for. This year at Computex we saw one of the first big steps to moving maglev into the mainstream – putting them in laptop keyboards.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/maglev-laptops-keyboards-darfon,27017.html

 

[JimVT]

I rode a train that was levitated.

why a keyboard?

 

[300 H and H]

why a keyboard?

Because it will make the machine cost more, and more chique'. If it really catches on, it will make older keyboards obsolete. Then we wil have to ditch our older key boards to keep up with the Jones's next door....

It's about making use of a technology that has limited uses, all for profit.

Regards, Kirk