Fold-Out Keyboard: Love It or Hate It?
PrintIn just about every case, the smaller your notebook, the smaller the accompanying keyboard. That's great for portability, but trying to type on such a tiny plank can seriously cramp your style.
The folks over at Yanko Design have come up with a solution. It's a fold-out keyboard for laptops that, while it doesn't exist, some would argue it probably should.
The two-way fold-out design allows for a full-size keyboard to come integrated on a laptop without sacrificing portability. Curiously, however, the concept pics don't include a numpad, though if this idea were to ever take off, we'd suspect you'd see fully-fledged desktop keyboard replacements.
Plenty of more pics to spy here, then hit the jump and sound off!
Image Credit: Yanko Design
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Keith E. Whisman
March 30, 2010 at 3:14pm
I've got an MSI laptop with a 16" LCD and a full size keyboard with num pad.
Instead of a fold out keyboard why not a fold out display?
Member2600
March 30, 2010 at 5:59pm
well dual screen laptops already http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/onkyo_selling_dx_dualscreen_laptop_under_1000
Emeraldflame
March 30, 2010 at 2:59pm
I really love the idea in fact if one existed, it would probably tempt me into getting one.
However this would be quite hard to use as a literal LAPtop. The keyboard hanging of the sides would make it a little awkward to hold on your lap. However using on a desk like most people would at say work or a conference would be quite easy.
jgrimoldy
March 30, 2010 at 12:21pm
This would be ultra cool if it could take a DVD, either thru a slot or a trap-door on the bottom. I know it would KILL the battery life, and make the device thicker, but I'm just sayin'.
jlh304
March 30, 2010 at 12:18pm
I had an ibm laptop back in 96 that when you open the lid the keyboard would come out and expand to give you a bigger keypad. I liked it because it gave me the small form factor laptop to carry around but still have a nice size usuable keyboard. It's why I choose that unit.
So this seems like something I would think about.
mr show
March 31, 2010 at 12:04am
The IBM "Butterfly" keyboard was a classic! Similar to this "new design", I think Palm had a foldout keyboard for some of their early PDAs. Everything old is new again!
GFC
March 30, 2010 at 12:01pm
I'm usually not interested in the mobile stuff, but wow. This looks like it would be really awesome to have. Seriously, I would consider buying one.
kjrviking
March 30, 2010 at 10:38am
if a pc manufacture were to implement this idea, i would so go for this. and then all the people who i know that are for some reason macs would be thinking how awesome it is - or telling me how stupid it is but secretly wish they had it.
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