giant keyboard requires massive fingers (or toes)

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May 28th, 2008 post a comment (8) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

If you’ve ever complained that the keys on your computer are too small for your fingers, have I got a keyboard for you. This ginormous keyboard is so big - How big is it, Bob? - It’s so big that in order to type on it, you need to walk almost 20 feet to get from one end of the keyboard to the other.

Giant Keyboard Rug by Maurin Donneaud

Built by electronics hacker Maurin Donneaud, the huge keyboard rug rolls out onto the floor, and lets your type with your socks on. In order to make the larger-than-life keys work, Maurin had to punch hundreds of individual holes under each letter to ensure that the conductive switches beneath the fabric would trigger when walked on.

Giant Keyboard Hole Punch

The whole thing kind of reminds me of the giant piano keyboard that Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia stomped all over in Big.

[Flickr via Ladyada via Hack a Day]


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  • 1. Greg from Make Money Online  |  May 29th, 2008 at 3:42 am

    It looks like a lot of fun. Reminds me of the tom hanks movie back in the 80’s

  • 2. joe  |  May 29th, 2008 at 4:41 am

    does that mean you have to find a table big enough for it?

  • 3. Stephen from Exergame Lab  |  June 6th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    And I thought typing with two fingers takes a long time. Phew!

  • 4. Seth  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    This is stupid, it isn’t in qwerty format. How are we supposed to use it?

  • 5. technabob  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Are you telling me that you’re used to touch typing with your feet already? Does the fact that it’s not QWERTY really affect your walking efficiency?

  • 6. Seth  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    Yeah it would, I’d get confused. Same thing happens when I have to enter a nickname or something in video games, I never know where to find the letters!

  • 7. Enzydaydype  |  August 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    It’s amazing

  • 8. Sharon  |  September 8th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Hi!

    I work in a small school library and was searching the web for something like this. Do you sell these or did you just make it because you could? :D

    Thanks!

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