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  • This Is Why Software Folks Should Not Design Hardware

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Thu Oct 9 01:44:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    A crew at Google Japan has come up with this totally mad keyboard
    design, based on -- of all things -- dials from ancient-style rotary
    phones <https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/keyboards/crazy-google-japan-keyboard-design-switches-keys-for-dials-the-gboard-dial-edition-shows-why-the-software-team-isnt-allowed-to-design-hardware>.

    I canrCOt see it being of any practical use whatsoever. But if you want
    to build your own, they have made the plans publicly available.

    The thing with rotary dials is, you could never operate them fast
    enough to get RSI. Or so I thought. But now I suppose somebody will
    prove me wrong. ;)
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Eli the Bearded@*@eli.users.panix.com to comp.misc on Fri Oct 10 05:31:09 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    In comp.misc, Lawrence DOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    A crew at Google Japan has come up with this totally mad keyboard
    design, based on -- of all things -- dials from ancient-style rotary
    phones <https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/keyboards/crazy-google-japan-keyboard-design-switches-keys-for-dials-the-gboard-dial-edition-shows-why-the-software-team-isnt-allowed-to-design-hardware>.

    Foone made several dial based keyboards, amount other craziness[*]. Unfortunately the images went away with the twitter account. They are
    listed here, and the URLs may be saved at internet archive:

    https://wiki.foone.org/w/Hardware_Projects

    It's possible some of them are in the tumblr account but Foone does not
    seem good at reposting, so unlikely to be found on Mastodon or Bluesky.

    Elijah
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    [*] recalls in particular the cube keyboard, with keys on six faces
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2

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