A keyboard is used for data entry, being a board on which is fixed rows of keys.

I propose that each key is separate. Each key has a base, and a springy mechanism as it does now. But each one is self contained and separate.

The keys communicate wirelessly with each other and with the computer.

They can be stored in a bag!

You only need to have out as many as you need at that time.

You can arrange them in different orders for different tasks.

Each one can have a little mouse movement sensor on the bottom so that each key can be used as a minnie-mouse.
-- pocmloc, Feb 25 2011

Get multiple sets, and you can play Scrabble or Bananagrams!
-- DrWorm, Feb 25 2011


Wildly impractical (+)
-- normzone, Feb 25 2011


You can put a stick on the bag, and shake it to generate gibberish quickly and easily. Enough shaking might also generate the works of Shakespeare!
-- bungston, Feb 26 2011


I seem to recall a similar idea to this before....
-- senatorjam, Feb 26 2011


Dang it, has anyon sn what I did with th lttr '3' up-sid- down? I know it wnt somplac...
-- RayfordSteele, Feb 26 2011


I'll have a 'P' lease, Bob.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 26 2011


Can each key have a little set of wheels on the bottom to set up standard keyboard arrangements, make sentences, and/or screw with people?
-- Voice, Feb 26 2011


[voice], you mean self-powered and autonomouse? Excellent idea.
-- pocmloc, Feb 26 2011



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