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Google Japan created one of the strangest keyboards ever, and we're dying to try it

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Google Japan created one of the strangest keyboards ever, and we're dying to try it

A keyboard that brings the keys to your fingers and brings the ambience of an assembly line to your desk.

Have you ever wished you could combine a mechanical keyboard with the efficiency of a factory production line? If not, you lack the vision of Google Japan, which recently made waves when it showed off a conveyor belt keyboard. The device looks like a Frankensteinian combination of an office keyboard and a treadmill, and an automated translation of the Japanese press release claims that "the keys flow into your hand via the rotating mechanism of the conveyor belt." Sounds like it might be time to update our list of the best keyboards.

The conveyor belt keyboard is, of course, a joke. It's part of an annual tradition intended to draw attention to Gboard, Google's keyboard app for Android. The tradition began on April Fools' Day in 2010, when the regional Googlers "unveiled" a drumset keyboard with hundreds of keys — apparently a riff on the fact that Japanese has thousands of Kanji characters that can't be represented on a standard keyboard layout — and it's quite amusing to watch Google employees whacking it with drum sticks. But the wacky keyboard prototypes become their own convention, and in 2016 the tradition of releasing them on October 1 began.

In the case of this year's conveyor belt keyboard, it might not be available for purchase, but Google has made the plans available on GitHub for anyone handy enough to build and run it as a DIY project.


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