The Japanese are obsessed with the numeric keypad (aka the ten key). At the big Yodobashi Camera in Osaka they have a whole display section devoted to the darn things. The Japanese must be doing a whole lot of addition and subtraction while I’m not looking.
Here are two of my favorites:
A wireless 10 key. Just hook up the included USB dongle and you can do your accounting from across the room!
If this one had one more feature, it would probably explode. Let’s see: It’s a USB ten key. It’s a trackball. It’s has arrow keys. It has 5 different calculator modes. When it’s not hooked up to a computer, it’s a standalone, solar-powered calculator.
And that’s not all. It has a pantagraph system key for a good typing experience! No, I have no idea what that means either, but would you even consider buying a 10 key without a pantagraph system key? I know I wouldn’t.
All this for only 5229 yen!
Posted by pmk at December 9, 2004 11:01 PM | TrackBackPant{a,o}graph => they used laptop keys with the tiny plastic domes, so they had to add a lever system underneath (picture on left). But it seems the Bluetooth 10-key on the “Logicool” Dinovo is ++.
Posted by: Jon at December 10, 2004 3:39 PM