keyboard are for more than just typing these Clarence Day . A few input - machine shaper are using exposition to show off keyboards that , in gain to require all the type your finger can summon , will also connect youriPodwith your Mac .
Mouse - makerRazer’sbooth ( # 2629 for those of you roaming the Expo floor ) have a paradigm of the company ’s Protouch keyboard . Besides the usual motley of programmable hot paint ( 10 of ’em , all light ) , media center keys for controlling music playback and the like ( also lit ) , and keys for zooming and commit your information processing system to sleep , this USB keyboard also run around a general iPod bob up above the social occasion key . Razer ’s vice chairman of selling Mien Tan tells me that the loading dock will have adapters for gibe everything from aniPod shuffleup to avideo - equal to iPod . Look for it to ship sometime this bounce priced at $ 100 .
Matias’USB 2.0 Keyboard is n’t new — the company unveil it at last descent ’s Apple Expo in Paris . But Expo is the first opportunity Matias has had to show off the keyboard stateside ( which it ’s doing in booth # 2049 ) . In addition to the $ 40 keyboard ’s two - port USB 2.0 hub on its back , there ’s also a single USB 2.0 dock port on the top — idealistic for plugging in an iPod shuffle .
While I ’m on the subject of Matias , I should mention a ware that is hold a debut of kind at Macworld Expo — the HalfKeyboard x2 ( pictured decently ) . The HalfKeyboard x2 is fundamentally a full - sized version of Matias ’ compact HalfKeyboard , the one - handed computer keyboard that aggregate assorted alphameric type and keyboard command on each of its 22 cay . You getallthe key on the HalfKeyboard x2 , but you also the alphanumerical keys also double up — on one side of the keyboard for right - handed typists , and on the other side for lefty — for one handed - typing . It ’s ideal for people who want a hand free for using a mouse or hold a telephone set .
The HalfKeyboard x2 will transport in the next three month for $ 50 — half the terms of the $ 100 HalfKeyboard , which is half its size . enwrap your mental capacity around that .
