{"id":90835,"date":"2019-05-17T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T15:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/laptops-to-get-maglev-keyboards-that-reduce-their-thickness"},"modified":"2019-05-17T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T15:34:03","slug":"laptops-to-get-maglev-keyboards-that-reduce-their-thickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/laptops-to-get-maglev-keyboards-that-reduce-their-thickness","title":{"rendered":"Laptops to get maglev keyboards that reduce their thickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laptops-to-get-maglev-keyboards-that-reduce-their-thickness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnetic levitation keyboards have been around for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/07\/27\/embotecs-levitating-keyboard-uses-magnets-not-forklifts\/\">while<\/a>, but they\u2019ve never really taken off, or floated our boats, or attracted much atten\u2026 Anyway, a Taiwanese manufacturer called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/darfon\/\">Darfon<\/a> is persevering with the idea, and it\u2019s discovered that maglev keys, which rest on opposing magnets instead of mushy membranes or mechanical switches, can make laptop keyboards significantly thinner. Unfortunately, according to a <em>CNET<\/em> journalist who played with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/uk\/news\/darfons-super-thin-maglev-keyboard-will-make-notebooks-even-slimmer\/\">couple of prototypes<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/computex2014\">Computex<\/a>, the keys can be hard to type on if skinniness is taken to the extreme. Then again, there\u2019s scope to change the resistance of the keyboard electronically to suit your preference, and Darfon claims it has already received orders from laptop makers who are targeting launches later this year. If that\u2019s true, perhaps the technology isn\u2019t so repellant after all.<\/p>\n<p>[Image credit: Aloysius Low \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/uk\/news\/darfons-super-thin-maglev-keyboard-will-make-notebooks-even-slimmer\/\">CNET<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/06\/06\/darfon-maglev-keyboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetic levitation keyboards have been around for a while, but they\u2019ve never really taken off, or floated our boats, or attracted much atten\u2026 Anyway, a Taiwanese manufacturer called Darfon is persevering with the idea, and it\u2019s discovered that maglev keys, which rest on opposing magnets instead of mushy membranes or mechanical switches, can make laptop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}