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Pocket Keyboard Design Contest (2024)

by ashenke on 3/20/25, 2:07 PM with 11 comments

• by rendaw on 3/22/25, 8:21 AM

  I'm glad Bubby won. I dream of having a truly portable programming setup, maybe even more than Wolfram's laptop holster. Ideally some keyboard like Bubby, a wireless thin client (phone?), and a heads up display, so I could walk around town while thinking or waiting for things to compile, or maybe blog while the display's off only turning it on to edit. Instead of a sedentary lifestyle I'd have an overly-active lifestyle.

  There have been a number of single hand chorded keyboards for niche use cases, or wrist-attached keyboard designs that never went anywhere, etc. It never feels like it should be that hard, keyboards are just a fairly small collection of discrete inputs...

• by stavros on 3/22/25, 10:26 AM

  Aw, if I had known about this contest, I would have submitted Keyyyyyyyys!

  https://www.stavros.io/posts/keyyyyyyyys/