Kong Fanwen’s No-Key Flat Glass Keyboard Is Clearly Stunning [Etched Key Glass Keyboard Concept Rivals Apple’s Designer Keyboards]

With the overriding fashion in the gadget and electronics industries
being the production of ultra slim devices (just look at tends in the
design of cell phones and HDTV units by way of examples) designer Kong
Fanwen has taken matters to their logical extreme in terms of waterproof
keyboard design with this 'No-Key' glass keyboard which, as its name
suggests, features a simple piece of glass with keys etched on its
surface.The keyboard works by shining a light source through the glass
to illuminate the etched details in the glass, allowing you to see the
keys, with a mounted mini camera serving to relay your 'key presses' to
your PC by, interestingly (considering the decidedly cutting edge nature
of the keyboard itself) a standard wired USB connection (this made us
smile, though we suspect that, with both an integrated light and a
camera, the device may prrove somewhat expensive to run if powered by
batteries alone - though possible, surely?).Merely a concept at the time
of writing, but one that we sincerely hope makes it into production as a
commercially available item, we would not be surprised it the likes of
Apple were to snap this 'No-Key' glass keyboard up pronto (if we were
Apple, we'd have written the cheque already).

[Yanko Design]