Oct
31
Attempts to change the venerable keyboard are usually met with failure – despite promising claims of productivity benefits, there’s often too great a pay-off for users used to the traditional QWERTY ‘board – but if anyone can encourage us to upgrade, perhaps it’s Apple. Their latest patent describes a MultiTouch surface particularly suitable for a MacBook (or a Mac Tablet, maybe?) which, thanks to a lifting framework of key-edges that presses underneath, can be both a smooth touchpad or a delineated keyboard.
