You may have come across several bluetooth keyboards, which are making their way as the top HTPC companion. This one solves the same purpose but a little bit more. The mouse replacement is built right into it, and instead of the usual trackball, this device includes a Touchpad. “The Bluetooth Handheld Keyboard and Touchpad is a palm-sized keyboard which consist of 48 key + touchpad. Its portable and tiny design can be used for travel, school, or any other working environment. ”

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How would it feel if with a few flick of your fingers or tapping on your arms you could listen to music or switch on your television? It does sound far fetched but a Carnegie Mellon student along with Microsoft have developed a method called the Skinput that allows the forearm to act as an interactive surface. That’s not all, it can also be used as a switch board to control  functioning of gadgets [like cellphone] by just tapping on the different parts of the forearm. You need not bring out the cell phone out of your pocket; you control it by tapping your arms.

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After a whole bunch of crazy looking flash drives featured here [syringe, tie, catpaw]this one may seem to be the most simple without any complexity whatsoever. At first it may seem like a toy, as if a white eraser with letters E,n,t,e,r, which of course it is not. It is a flash drive and is the ‘Enter’ key from a keyboard that has been upcycled to make it lead a new life.

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We are well acquainted with flexible or folding keyboards. This is also a kind of folding keyboard, but unlike the ones we have already seen it folds like a Japanese fan. The keyboard folds layer after layer to look like a bunch of stacked rectangular plates that makes it pretty easy to carry around. It is a part of None Bacteria Project that aims at carrying and using your own keyboard rather than those shared by others, devising it as a measure to lessen handling germs.

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The picture might excite you but just hold on! No doubt this machine has the ability to create yummy looking keyboard shaped waffles, but it is not just available for sale yet. Why? The reason is that this idea was merely the result of a project for the School of Visual Arts that needed any old obsolete machine to be converted into something useful as a plan to repurpose it. What you see is a yesteryear’s type writer converted into a waffle iron capable of producing keyboard shaped waffles.

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Here we are back once again with some keys [from the keyboard] inspired objects. Apart from the magnets and cufflinks, we have already seen them as clocks, bag and seats. This time the keys are in the form of cups which when inverted, look like a huge Ctrl-Alt-Del trio, massive enough to be held in your palm. The collection is called Ctrl-Alt-Del Keyboard Soft Reboot Cup Set.

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iPhone is probably one of the coolest products in this decade with millions of fans worldwide. With a robust OS, solid hardware and an ultra-cool user interface this mobile revolutionized the concept of a phone. But one important thing which was missing in the iPhone was a keyboard which most business users need. Welcome the iTwinge, officially the world’s first commercially available keyboard exclusively for the iPhone. So I guess no more typos?

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That’s called second life! Don’t you think it’s a brilliant conversion? Rather than letting technology trash pile up harming the environment, the people at Redimei change such stuff to real useful products. The urge of recycling and reusing things that are not useful anymore leads to building up of some great items, one of which is the keyboard mirror.

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