Google Japan Puts Entire Keyboard on One Long Stick

Several years ago , Google Japan started cooking up uncanny trinket keyboards as an annual April Fools ’ Day prank . Most of the instauration , include a working version ofGoogle ’s mobile Gboard keyboard wrapped around a cupful , are more or less heap jape . They also do n’t seem to be bind to April anymore . But this yr ’s creationmight in reality have some meritfor those of us who scramble with cluttered , messy desks .

Despite experience admission to a stack of keyboards proffer everything from whisper quiet chiclet - elan samara to mechanically skillful monsters loud enough to wake the dead , I run to stick to the keyboard on my laptop computer for the simple reason that it takes up less space on my desk — a desk that ’s forever littered with gizmo , photographic camera , video games , and an ever - turn heap of backup drives . There ’s no elbow room for an option , or at least I assume there was n’t , until I saw theGboard peg .

What Google Japan has done this time around is merely re - coiffe the QWERTY keyboard into one retentive striptease , like the key on a pianoforte , producing a physical keyboard prototype that measures in at a whopping 65 - inch across . But it also only rough 2.5 - inches deep , allow it to easy squeeze onto the bottom edge of even the most atrociously littered workspaces .

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Google Japan swash some other questionable advantages to the Gboard Stick , include that it naturally encourages the exploiter to stretch out their arm and leg to gain every last key , provides a potentially light mode for hunt and peck typist to memorize the locating of keys . Its size of it also supposedly allows two multitude to well use it at the same time , pave the path for email duets .

If you do n’t think the Gboard Stick is an solely ludicrous idea , you canhead over to GitHub , where Google Japan has shared all the open - root files that kick the bucket into its creation , making it gentle for others to either construct one for themselves or even opt for a tradition version with an alternating layout .

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All 65-inches of the Gboard Stick keyboard—click to zoom.