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Tag: keyboards

Clicks keyboard comes to Android to give your Galaxy, Pixel, or Moto that BlackBerry look

2025-02-25 Danie
Two stylish Motorola phones on a dark surface: a yellow smartphone with a colorful display and a blue, keyboard-equipped model beside it. Both phones have Clicks hardware keyboards attached, and the keyboards form part of a case that wraps around the phone's own shapes.

“Remember Clicks? The iPhone keyboard accessory that can help you relive the early 2000s Blackberry charm? Yep, the slab-like case that gives you access to a physical QWERTY keyboard on your latest iOS device. Upon […]

Blogkeyboards, technology

3 reasons magnetic switches are shaking up the keyboard scene

2024-08-022024-08-02 Danie
Close view of a keyboard with three of the key caps removed.

Mechanical keyboards have been responsible for a huge shift in user behaviour, owing to the superior typing experience they offer over traditional or membrane keyboards. Mechanical switches are at the core of that experience, offering […]

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6 myths about mechanical keyboards that are no longer true

2024-07-252024-07-25 Danie
A white keyboard showing some buttons with a blue background colour such as the backspace, home, pgup, pgdn, end, alt, fn, and ctrl. The enter and space keys have images on them like cottages set against a sea view.

For better or worse, the “mech keeb” community is still a niche one, so there are many more people outside of it than the ones in the know. So, a regular PC user might still […]

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Magnets are switching up the keyboard game with an additional keystroke setting

2024-04-072024-04-07 Danie
Close up view of a keyboard showing just a few white keys, with a cube shaped key switch resting on top of one of the keys. The switch is made of plastic with a black coloured base, and a transparent top. Protruding from the top of the switch is a few mm's of pink stalk that the key cap would be attached to.

These keyboards rely on magnets and springs and activate by sensing changes in the magnetic field. Popularized by Dutch keyboard startup Wooting, these switches rely on the Hall Effect and have actually been around since […]

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