The Bastron Glass Keyboard is sleek and has an integrated touchpad, but it isn’t for everyone - Yanko Design

Hither's the dilemma. I absolutely love tactility. I detest touchscreen keyboards just because they're so difficult to utilise, but at the same time, I run across a very conscious endeavor on the part of tech companies to move towards them. Information technology won't be long before laptops volition come with touchscreen keyboards instead of tactile ones (Microsoft's really working on one right now), then it'south probably prudent to wait into touchscreen keyboards, just because the tech world is undeniably moving towards that hereafter.

The Bastron Drinking glass Touch Smart Keyboard looks cracking and surely feels futuristic. I'm just not sure if, in the case of people who type a lot for a living, that'south necessarily a good matter. The wired keyboard, measuring at simply 0.28 inches in height (that's thinner than the average smartphone), comes with an aluminum base and a tempered glass upper with the key layout screen-printed onto information technology. The capacitive impact keyboard does accept born vibration and sound feedback that chimes in every time you type, but they don't actually supervene upon the joy of key travel and the clicking sound caused by concrete keys hit downwards on a PCB every bit yous blazon. Where the Bastron actually offers something different is in its number pad, which as well comes with the ability to transform into a bear on-sensitive trackpad. In doing so, the Bastron offers the kind of one-surface productivity you'd get from laptops, only for a desktop. Moreover, I could rally behind the fact that it's splash-resistant, grit-proof, and can exist wiped with a single swoop of a microfiber cloth. That itself may appeal to a certain demographic of people, just information technology's a difficult sell to people who still love high-travel, tactile keyboards. Peradventure in a hereafter where flat, touchscreen keyboards are more than of a norm.

Designer: Bastron