Microsoft Reveals LCD Keyboard [Customizable]

The QWERTY keyboard is old; it was developed back in the 18-freakin’-70s to minimize typebar jamming in typewriters. It became the English-language standard and was ported to electric typewriters and computers. And we still mainly use keyboards with the letters and symbols printed right on them. seatlepi is writing more…

But in these days of LCDs and touch screens, why? Might it make more sense — especially with all the other keyboards in other languages — to have keyboards that are changeable and customizable?

Enter the Adaptive Keyboard. Microsoft‘s Applied Sciences Group has produced a prototype tactile LCD keyboard that is entirely customizable and can act as a touch input device. It’s got see-through keys with a liquid-crystal display underneath.

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