Best wireless keyboard – Which one? The trend is becoming pretty clear; ten years from now, computers will come in two basic flavors: the laptop (or whatever they’ll be calling it then) – a unitary box that unfolds and expands in ingenious ways, but still stays in one piece – and office equipment where all the peripherals are free to wander around untethered. The Best Wireless Keyboards, mice and trackballs, wireless printers… Yes, the day is rapidly approaching when the RF flux in a typical “boiler room” with twenty computers going at once will be enough to light up fluorescent tubes and cook a hot-dog. But if that doesn’t bother you, and you’re not scared off by a price that’s typically three to four times that of a comparably equipped cabled keyboard, manufacturers are prepared to accomodate you. And how!
Your first selection should probably be the data transmission method. The best wireless keyboards come in infrared (IR) and radio frequency (RF) types; some even “speak” both. IR technology is basically the same as what is used in the ubiquitous remote control boxes for your TV, stereo, air conditioner and so forth. One manufacturer even offers a package of a wireless keyboard and a remote controller – presumably for turning your peripherals on and off. IR is nice for avoiding that not-so-hypothetical hot room scenario. The main disadvantage is that it’s basically line-of-sight – though many of you know tricks that allow you to bounce your remote’s beam off a brightly painted wall or a mirror and change channels on a TV that’s facing away from you. Still, if your favorite place to rest your keyboard doesn’t have a view of the CPU or adapter, that might be a problem. RF, which typically means 2.4 GHz “Bluetooth” technology familiar to high-end cellular telephone users, doesn’t have that drawback.
Next comes the hard part: choosing a package. Typically, your CPU interface is a box that plugs into a USB port – and that’s where commonality ends. You can buy just a keyboard – standard layout or ergonomic? Or a keyboard and mouse, or a keyboard with touchpad. Some makers even take advantage of the excess badwidth available to let you plug other peripherals – typically audio – into the keyboard instead of the CPU. Makes sense if you’re Skyping while wandering from desk to workbench to wetbar.
Both IR and RF technologies are already in use for mass market items, so they are not inherently expensive. The main cost-enhancing factor for the moment is probably the relatively low market volume for wireless peripherals. As volume grows, it’s reasonable to expect prices to drop. Already some packagers of complete systems are building wireless technology into their CPU’s and supplying wireless mice and keyboards as standard equipment.
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I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts.
Cool screen of Blackberry 8900-myluxphone Obama Think Tank Grassroots
The unit in this review actually features
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Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…
silentpcreview.com | View topic – Wireless mouse-in Keyboards from …
How is the accuracy of the trackball? I’m using a keyboard trackball combination from
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If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts lately you’ll know I’ve come to adding a few news posts from around the web on this subject. I’ve got a couple more today that are new and updated, so let me know what you think of em…
Solidtek Mini Keyboard KB-5010BP – Keyboard , Trackball (Q06161 …
Customers also search for: TechnologyKeyboards, Mice, Web Cams, PC Speakers
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Back with more news for you today. It’s amazing how much good information there is on this stuff out there if you know where to look. Three in particular that I found really valuable were…
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Micro Aurora Wireless Aluminum Keyboard (Model KB008W-B) with laser trackball & mouse keys, Moncaso Wireless Keyboard (Model
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Latest keyboard with trackball news – Amkette Keyboard has Optical Trackball – Saudi In Focus Forums
Back with more news for you today. It’s amazing how much good information there is on this stuff out there if you know where to look. Three in particular that I found really valuable were…
Amkette Keyboard has Optical Trackball – Saudi In Focus Forums
This wireless keyboard is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, MAC OS X and Linux. The 800-DPI optical trackball
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Does Blackberry Pearl has stylus and keyboard?
What are suretype keyboard and trackball navigation actually? How do they work? I would like to get opinions before buying a new pda for myself. Is this phone worth to have because I dont want to regret after buying this. And if this is not the best please recommend the better model.Thanksss!!!
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I buy your $5000 computer and you give me a trackball mouse?
Not that I actually expected anything else, but I just bought a new HP server for $5000, and along with it they send me a decent keyboard and a crappy trackball mouse. I didn't even know they still made trackball mice! Does anyone think HP should step up their game and at least provide a somewhat better
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RIM BlackBerry Bold 9000 review 1 of 2 – Design, Keyboard, Email …
A look at the physical design, keyboard, and email client in the RIM blackberry Bold 9000. … RIM BlackBerry
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Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…
Lenovo’s mini wireless keyboard/trackball combo looks sofa-friendly
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Petleopard | Ten Types of New Big Brand Phones are Well Worth Buying
Blackberry 9630 is also a high-end business phone; it is designed into full QWERTY keyboard with trackball. Therefore, it is very convenient
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