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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2004-07-29 09:16 pm

Technical Advice please

My computer is in the living room.

The TV is in the living room.

I can happily read away without problems, but typing causes enough noise to piss off the people watching TV.

Can anyone recommend a quiet keyboard?

YES!

[identity profile] sneakingyoda.livejournal.com 2004-07-29 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
My brother got my dad this really cool indestructable keyboard for christmas. I've typed on it and it makes little to no noise at all, the only thing you have to get used to is the fact that it's made out of flexable rubber. (thus a little wonky on the fingers )

The name of the product is: the Virtually Indestructible Keyboard
and here is a site that gives a review of it.
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=37

Highly recogmended.

[identity profile] douglasbryant.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
http://www.fingerworks.com/ a no noise keyboard and mouse in one, this is the nearest you are going to get to S.T.N.G. and if you don't know the abreviation that just shows character.
P.S. I thought your beard/goaty thing looked very good on you, it gave your face a bit more length and depth.

[identity profile] xquiq.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's what I was going to suggest too. They take a bit of getting used to, but are the quietest keyboards I've ever used.

You can also do cool things like customise gestures for common tasks.

[identity profile] douglasbryant.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I wanted to reprogram it to use fully chorded single hand input, using BAT keyboard from www.infogrip.de its the best keyboard concept in the world, but its clunky.

[identity profile] douglasbryant.livejournal.com 2004-08-02 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Not a chance I have been waiting over a year, also products in this Area keep there price, it's a small company which had to do the research. I cant think of any other touch pad which allows several points of contact simultaniously.
I will get one next year (wishful thinking)...

[identity profile] dreema.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I got a cheap infra red one from pc world a while back, had a built in mouse thing as well. I think it was called airwave, or something. It was based around a laptop keyboard anyway, so was a lot quieter than most others I've used

[identity profile] aberbotimue.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
i have a compaq keyboard, and it is very quiet..

but looks like dougs is designed to be quiet look there first, the other thing, is build some sort of acustic hood, for you hands..

or direct your keyboard away from everyone else..

[identity profile] douglasbryant.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
My suggestion isn't cheap, but someone agrees with me, I feel warm all over now...

Alternately...

[identity profile] laserboy.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 10:18 am (UTC)(link)

It's your flat, so type as noisily as you want. :)