Lim Hong Kiat from Malaysia (Happy New Year!) has blogged a list of 13 Computer keyboards you've never seen before, with pictures. Actually, I've seen several of them, and you may have too, but it's a good reminder that there have been plenty of attempts to innovate in keyboard hardware, even if they haven't caught on.
I've also covered a few other devices that could take the number up to 20. One is the AbKey, from Singapore, which I wrote about in Online. Another is Howard Hui's Cubeboard, from Hong Kong, which lets you swap the keys around. (The original site is now spam.)
Two that I've blogged here previously are HP's interesting gesture keyboard and the Angel Kitty keyboard which, perhaps uniquely, is available in different bust sizes.
Another two I'd like to throw in are the Combimouse and the amazing Wolfking Warrior FPS Keypad, for gamers.
Sadly I never met Lilian Malt, but I did try a Maltron (photo at top) in the early 1980s. I didn't get on with it....
