Category:Backtyping keyboards
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A Backtyping keyboard is a device held with two hands like a gamepad and typed with the fingers on the back. Modifier keys are often on the top, to be operated with the thumbs.
It is common for a device of this type to display the key layout on the top. This display could be printed (Alphagrip), printed with reactive backlighting (TREWGrip) or completely virtual on the display screen of the device that the keyboard is paired with (RearType, AlphaUI BackType).
Keyboards without articles
- Yogitype
- Grabshell: Can also be unfolded onto a desk and operated as a columnar keyboard
- Microsoft Research's RearType[1]: Rough prototype made from an ErgoDex graphics tablet with separate key modules velcro'ed to a tablet PC.
- Grippity -- Layout is not rotated to take advantage of muscle memory but the keyboard is transparent.[2]
- TREWGrip: Funding unsuccessful on Kickstarter.
- Octodon: Funding unsuccessful on Kickstarter
- AlphaUI Back-Type. [3][4]
See also
- Category:Vertical keyboards. Some backtyping keyboards can be used vertically, making them also vertical keyboards.
References
- ↑ Engadget: Microsoft Research reveals RearType, puts QWERTY back where it belongs. Retrieved 2016-04-22
- ↑ Engadget: Grippity back-typing keyboard hands-on. Retrived 2017-01-24
- ↑ Oh Gizmo! - AlphaUi Back-Type Adds A Physical Keyboard To The Back Of Your Tablet. Dated 2010-07-10. Retrieved 2017-02-14
- ↑ AlphaUI France channel on Youtube: AlphaUi - I back-type with rear keyboard for tablets. Dated 2010-10-04. Watched 2017-02-14
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