Apple: soon a keyboard without keys?

After the Magic Mouse without keys, Apple is preparing to propose a keyboard based on the same principle, touch and without apparent button. CultOfMac website broadcasts a capture of a patent suggesting that the Cupertino firm is working on such a project. The object would be in the same form as a physical keyboard except that a tactile interface with technology "piezoelectric".

It's a surface completely flat on which keys are printed and respond to the touch as is currently enjoying iOS for example. One of the limitations of such a tool lies in the fact that the user does not feel the return of the keys. Apple therefore added a mechanism under the touch surface to "feel" every support on a key. Nothing does however say that the California company will commercialize such a project for the time being.

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