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The delete key is on the end of a pencil now too.
my favorite part is that it has a “10″ key
Am I the only one disturbed by the emoticon-looking keys ? (the lower-right group)
I am now that you said something
Is that a “10″ key I see? WTF?
Yes it is. Followed by what appears to be a “12″ key.
That sure looks like a ’10′… with a ’12′ right next to it
Obviously this keyboard doesn’t go to 11..
What format is that? It sure as hell isn’t QWERTY!
The spacebar is probably set to Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
that’s not qwerty! what is it? and i want smiley face keys
what? you mean that the space bar doesn’t say “space” on it??
Its not QUERTY I think is some kind of “GNEBMHIJ” >_<
Why even bother writing letters if they are all wrong?
Although if you know how to type it doesn’t matter if the letters are on there or not…
You would think that if you use a keyboard long enough to erase the original labeling, you should have learned the location of the keys (I just typed this without looking at my keyboard, for example)
Dude, it’s a joke. The keys are just sitting on top of their mount locations. That’s why some of them are tilted. Plus, even a touch typist should know where each key belongs. Again, it’s a joke.
Internets. Serious business.
A bit intense for a self-described office prankster.
Sure beats paying $12.99 for a new one!
$12.99?, Thats expensive!!! No wonder why they didn’t buy a new one!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10363676
I am sure you can get them even cheaper at goodwill or thrift stores
Maybe we’re missing the point. Maybe there’s a arduino in there that’s processing the keys so they actually input what they say. The 10 key 10, the =) key =) etc. This could be less of a kludge and more a cleaver hack ^-^
heythos hoiros jp -whoops, wrong keyboard
Win! And where have you been???
I violated my probation, but I’m back now. Ahhh, freedom.
I spend ages decoding that and it turns out to be gibberish.
You suck.
People actually pay good money for keyboards like that… Check out http://www.daskeyboard.com/
Oh! It has keys for “10″ and “12″!
wow, the comments are better than the keyboard. which is awesome, btw…for a five year old!!!
awesome!! nonconformist keyboard. finally! someone came up with “happy” and “sad” bottons and a crooked one as well.
It looks like some of those keys are not attached.
It looks that way, but I suggest that they had taken the keys of and put some of them back on backwards.
At first I thought this was a clever mod for foreign alphabets (like Cyrillic) but turns out it’s just…wait, what IS this anyway?!
I would have given them an “A+” if they had used a Sharpie. An “A” will have to do.
If you can even find the A, that is.
I see two B, or is that an R?
Two B or not two B, that R the question.
Well it’s easy enough to go into your settings and reassign the values of the different keystrokes… like, really easy. All you gotta do is want to. Maybe the user liked this configuration better than a QWERTY keyboard. Anyway, props to ‘em for whatever reason.
So much for keystroke hackers?
I imagine that the developers of the Dvorak keyboard are kicking themselves for not including emoticon keys; it would be the standard by now if they had.
The QWERTY format was invented to keep typewriters from jamming from people typing too fast right? Maybe this person reassigned the lettering to a faster format. Or it’s for a foreign language? Anyhoo, I think that would make for a decent prank in the cubicle farms. “Dave, what the hell is this?”
When I worked for the state, I was known as the office prankster. I’d sometimes sneak in early and do things such as rearrange keys on a keyboard (twice making them spell Happy Birthday (I saved keys from broken keyboards). One of the most fun pranks was substituting a BSOD graphic in place of the boot screen, and taking a screen shot of someone’s computer desktop, hiding their desktop icons, and substituting the graphic for their desktop background. It made people repeatedly click on the desktop icons, trying to load programs.
Anna, you evil woman, you!
GOTTA try the screenshot gag, that’ll get things going.
My son did this to me : – T. He’s the computer genius. I get him back by hiding behind things and scaring him. He tends to live in his own little world and zones out constantly. It’s the only way I can get back at him >: – )
I wound up doing something like that to myself. I had used Screengrab for Firefox to capture a screen. (It was of “Bubba Claus & the Mutant Reindeer.) Not paying attention to what the hell I was doing, I kept clicking on the ‘reply’ button. It was finals week at school. Too tired.
What does SPace mean? Sub Primordal articulated covert entity?
SPace is for Snail Pace. It prevents the user from pressing more than a keystroke every three minutes.
FUnny that I do the DOuble CAps error a lot on a keyboard, but I don’t think it could happen with a pencil.
I think it was the ‘Pace’ button. (“Jake, it’s time you switched brands!”)
not if it’s in your ear
I’m pretty sure the capital P is not a typo, but merely a result of being unable to write the tail of a lowercase p below the bottom of the rest of the letters, which happen to line up pretty close to the edge of the key.
ahh some of the keys are in the right place =( o well i think enough of them are moved so that those who don’t know how to type can’t use it =D
THE NEW WAY OF LEARNING THE LETTERS ON THE KEYBOARD!
just skrape all the letters off, and make the kids memorise as they type!
theill pay THAT much more attention if they have to do the marking themself..
best if yoy give them a waterbased pen, so ittl wear out! they will eager to learn!
you use my idea? its copyrighted.. 1000$ please!
You can buy stickers to replace letters on worn keys, as well as sets for foreign languages, so why not just put stickers over the keys to hide the letters? It’d be cheap and wouldn’t damage the keys.
Seriously! It’s not even in the DOVARK format… that’s what I first thought. Probably some person with lots of spare time, and playing with keymapping software?
It looks more like a child trying to reproduce the QWERTY layout from memory. The way they always sing a mixed-up Alphabet Song at first
Well that helps, I see the ‘Space’ now but where’s that ‘Any’ key they keep asking me to press?
^ Nice lol. Seriously though, emoticon keys? How would that WORK in Microsoft Word or Excel or something?!
Key mapping/macros. For example, I rarely use the carat ^ and pipe | characters, so those could be set to, instead, keystroke
and :p if I wanted. The same goes with the F keys that people normally do not use.
Sorry, I geeked out in this thread.
The poor man’s optimus maximus keyboard.
I paid $5 for this keyboard from Wal Mart.
I think it’s QWERTY in elf-ish. Worth a fortune for the true couch potato connaisseur.
at first, I thought that this was someone trying to learn the Dvorak keyboard style, but abandoned that thought quickly. I have actually tried learning Dvorak before, but with using computers at work and at home both, it was too difficult remembering how to do both.
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Sorry, just fixing my keyboard. The T key had almost completely faded away!
It’s a low budget polish Enigma
Wait. Where’s the “any” key? You know, when the message says “press any key to continue” you need to press… oh never mind.
Its like a joke I once played on a friends hubby who always “borrows” my computer. His wife and I who are both touch typists laugh at his hunt and peck. One day back when I was still using the old clunker and didn’t care about the keyboard, I pried off the keys and put them in alphabetical order.
Looks like a Scrabble keyboard to me…
I really am quite fond of the smiley buttons.
the words are on wrong places, baby
[keyboard cat for u ]
There’s a 10 key! No zero, but a 10. That’s pretty handy.
Mine looks pretty much like this one, I’m not gonna change it. It’s like shoes worn for three years – fits perfectly ^_^
U need money guy
Not even Chuck Norris can argue with this awesomeness.
THe KEyboard ALl THe ALiens ARe USing NOw.
she forgot the ” anykey” !
(If windows asks her to press any key…)
THAT HAVE A SMILEY FACE BUTTON!!! WTF!
I think these are the ones in Ikea with nothing on but some idiot always tries to recreate the keyboard with the free pencils