I'm going to be a party pooper here and say the presentation of this board is almost making me puke.
As a tech demo, it's fine, it's a cool project and neat to see that you can throw all of this stuff together on such a small space, but the visions they outline in the product descriptions are utter nonsense.
First off, store passwords on the keyboard and then make it connect to WiFi directly? What a great idea, that sure makes me feel safe. You could of course increase safety by having a separate EEPROM chip where the passwords are stored, but there's no mention of such a thing.
We often end up inputting the same damn-password so many times because most of those safe-secure password keeper are just too complicated to startup.
Well then make a macro for it, there's a good reason programmable keyboards exist. Using the same password because your password manager is too complicated to start up is like not fastening your seatbelt because it takes too much time.
HID such as keyboard has simply become an integral part of the society and also our primary window to the digital world.
No, they are an interface between man and machine. That's why they're called Human Interface Devices. The primary window to the digital world is the screen, not the keyboard. Keyboards are not a part of society, that's just overselling their importance.
This Project... [...] is not just about helping or assisting, but shaping the way you interact with the digital domain in a long term. Self-deactivation after hours in front of computer or automatically kill your browser in case you've been in social media for too long are just an example of how it can help shaping the better you.
Guess what, all of that stuff can already be done with simple scripts on your device. I see where they're coming from, but saying that making the keyboard much smarter is the ultimate solution is overstating it.
is not just about another keyboard that does Macro, but instead, it's all about a keyboard that generates its own macro depending on your surrounding and just the way you want it.
I wanna see that algorithm. And even if it existed, a simple ATMega2560 is far from a solid choice to run a machine learning algorithm that analyses your typing patterns and automatically generates macros from that. ARM-based boards already exist.
This board just feels like someone wanted to make a keyboard to fool around with, which it is, and then tried to find reasons why you'd actually want such a thing in your live after the fact.
And it's not like you'd have to hype it up anyway. It's packed full of neat little stuff that I'm sure people will find ways to do cool stuff with, whether it's useful or not. You wouldn't even have to use it as a keyboard to do fun stuff with it, and as just a keyboard it also has interesting ideas like the analogue sticks or the LEDs between the keys.
But this is not a revolution that will change the way we think about interacting with a computer, as much as the description wants to make me believe that.
