Monday, October 9th 2023

Logitech's Upcoming Ergonomic Keyboard Leaks Ahead of Launch

Logitech is readying a new ergonomic keyboard that will go under the name of Wave Keys according to several product images posted by WinFuture. As the name implies, the keyboard is wave shaped, but it's also somewhat curved and takes a slightly different design approach to its shape compared to the current Logitech Wave keyboard. The arrow keys have been shifted to the left, under the right shift key and the cluster of keys above the arrow keys on a full-size keyboard have been moved to the same row as where the function keys would normally be, in favour of the print screen, scroll lock pause keys.

The function keys get to share duty with various media keys and what not and the Wave Keys keyboard has also been designed to be Apple compatible, so the ctrl, alt and windows keys are shared with the cmd and opt keys you'd find on an Apple keyboard. What stands out the most is the integrated, soft and apparently cushioned palm rest, which not only is huge, but seems very likely to attract dirt and grime over time. The Wave Keys support both Bluetooth and Logitech's proprietary wireless connectivity and the company claims up to three years battery life. The keyboard is said to launch later this week for €99.99 in the Eurozone.
Source: WinFuture
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29 Comments on Logitech's Upcoming Ergonomic Keyboard Leaks Ahead of Launch

#26
TheLostSwede
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trsttteThey're more common than you'd think, whenever I do a quick search for mechanical keyboards most stuff I find is ANSI only. Kind of nuts given the population of europe is 1.5x the population of the US but given there's at least 10 different variations of the ISO layout across Europe I guess they'd rather throw the towel and just try to push ANSI and hope people buy it anyway (which a lot do to my disbelief).

Personally I don't mind buying whatever regional ISO layout is available, I can live and i'm already used to having misplaced symbols anyway, but I refuse to buy anything that's not ISO
The worst ones are these. I have no idea how they came about.

You can also get a weird ISO/ANSI hybird.

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#27
Haile Selassie
Is anyone making mech variant of the ergo style keyboard?
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#29
Bwaze
trsttteThey're more common than you'd think, whenever I do a quick search for mechanical keyboards most stuff I find is ANSI only. Kind of nuts given the population of europe is 1.5x the population of the US but given there's at least 10 different variations of the ISO layout across Europe I guess they'd rather throw the towel and just try to push ANSI and hope people buy it anyway (which a lot do to my disbelief).
I think this started with first LED lighted keyboards. All of a sudden there was no easy option to just print the additional odd characters of many EU nations, regions, states. So the companies tried to push the "universal" one, screw the local traditions. And all of a sudden you got Razer Black Widow with just the US layoit, and imprters then laser etched couple of local language signs on appropriate keys. The fact that much of secondary signs layout doesn't really match was just ignored.

This really took off, so many companies followed, and now even the companies that do make proper EU local keyboards also offer US layout, and it's a mess.
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