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Logitech has announced a new member of the Harmony line of universal remote controls. Typically, when we are talking about Harmony Remotes, they look like remote controls. This time that is not the case with the Harmony Smart Keyboard being designed to allows easy typing on your set-top box or game console.

The keyboard has a normal QWERTY arrangement and should make for each searching for your favorite content. The keyboard has dedicated buttons for changing channels, Guide, Pause, and Play on connected devices. The keyboard will support Apple TV, Roku, and the Xbox One and PS3. No mention of support for the PS4 is made, but that’s not surprising – none of Harmony’s remotes yet support Sony’s latest console.

The keyboard ships with the Harmony Hub that works with an app available for Android or iOS devices. The hub and app combo  allows you to control components in your entertainment system and set up activities for tasks like watching movies, and even allows operation of equipment inside of closed cabinets. The Harmony Smart Keyboard can be pre-ordered for $149.99 (USD) right now.

A name like Rapoo might raise some eyebrows, but you ought to take note that they happen to be a leading manufacturer when it comes to wireless peripheral products. Their latest addition to the market? The Rapoo E2700 multimedia wireless keyboard that sports a touchpad, which will happen to hail from the company’s highly esteemed Blade Series. The Rapoo E2700 multimedia wireless keyboard comes across as extremely slim, making it an essential tool when it comes to enhancing productivity as well as performance straight from the comfort of your couch. Apart from that, there is no need for you to make use of a separate keyboard and mouse whenever you opt to browse the web or enjoy multimedia thanks to its all inclusive design.

The Rapoo E2700 multimedia wireless keyboard would feature a scissor key structure that delivers a greater level of accuracy, reliability, as well as the perfect key stroke results every time. This does away with (or rather, minimizes the occurrence of) any typos since the micro-scissors will be able to distribute pressure evenly across the key surfaces, allowing each quiet keystroke that is made to be 100% correct all the time. Theoretically speaking, of course, although I am quite sure that test and focus groups for the Rapoo E2700 would have agreed to such an assessment before the company is able to make such a claim.

The Rapoo E2700 multimedia wireless keyboard would comprise of 80 keys, where it includes 13 hotkeys (i.e. volume, mute, and forward/back among others). Apart from that, the touchpad that is located on the right side of the keys would be placed where the mouse is supposed to be normally, ensuring you get to enjoy full media control with just one single swipe of a finger. It would be nice if there were to be a left handed version of this keyboard though, otherwise southpaws like me will just have to adapt – as usual.

Expect the Rapoo E2700 multimedia wireless keyboard to come with a tiny and unobtrusive nano USB receiver, allowing you to have it remain plugged into your device’s USB port all the time, as it operates on a 2.4GHz wireless frequency with a 360 degree range as well as a maximum of 10 meters of working range. The asking price for the Rapoo E2700 multimedia wireless keyboard stands at $49.99 as at press time.

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Not all keyboards are created equal, and here we are with the Sony Vegas Pro Keyboard from Editor Keys which will feature more than 116 keyboard shortcuts for the program, where this particular keyboard intends to make editing in Sony Vegas a whole lot more faster than before. That is in theory, of course, and we cannot wait to see whether such a claim is true in real life. The Sony Vegas Pro Keyboard happens to be an extremely slim keyboard for the PC, where at first glance, it might even resemble that of a kid’s keyboard. It sports a very modern design and features highly detailed program icons so that hunting down the corresponding editing shortcut should be a piece of cake. Of course, like everything else, spending more time with it would help you gain more experience and get more comfortable with the Sony Vegas Pro Keyboard.

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Sony Vegas Pro Keyboard Launched original content from Ubergizmo.

The printed word is dying, but the printed keyboard is alive and kicking. And no, you won’t need a 3D printer to make one. A company called Novalia has made an incredibly thin Bluetooth keyboard made of photo paper, conductive ink and its proprietary electronic module.

Novalia made the keyboard to show off its advancements in printed technology, particularly the electronic module based on Nordic Semiconductor’s system-on-a-chip and a printing process that allows conventional printers to mass produce capacitive sensors.

Novalia’s technology could be used to make not just keyboards but other input devices as well, and existing printing presses could churn out hundreds of overlays with built-in sensors in a matter of minutes. Nordic Semiconductor says the module can last for up to nine months on a single CR2032 button cell battery.

I’m not sure if Novalia will make the keyboard available to the public. It does have Switchboard, a much simpler version of the keyboard on its online shop . That one’s made of foam board and has eight capacitive keys and sells for £25 (~$41 USD)

[via Geeky Gadgets & Nordic Semiconductor]

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