Fujitsu has proposed the concept of keyboard-touchpad

I remember that the post about the keyboard-touchscreen caused quite a heated discussion, but in general was not received very well. There were several reasons for this: the inability to feel the response when the button is pressed, and the lack of a customization function for such a keyboard for your own needs, and much more. In principle, all this is true, but, perhaps, Fujitsu offered a more interesting version of such a keyboard, which allows you to customize the keyboard for yourself.

The idea is quite interesting, although it also lacks a tactile response, which would allow us to work the way we work with a regular keyboard. True, there are already developments that allow the surface to bulge when you click on a certain area, but in the Fujitsu concept this is not. Perhaps it is only for now, and after a while everything will appear.
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The advantage of this keyboard (as already mentioned, this is only a concept) is that any user can change the key layout of this virtual keyboard, change their color, add or remove any buttons that may be useful in the work. In addition, these customized layouts can be saved, and then used in various applications. For example, for counting something, you can display only large buttons with numbers, you can change the language on the fly, you can create new, unseen combinations.

This project was named “Keyless Lifebook”, and was awarded at the 2011 Fujitsu Design Awards event. Perhaps soon, Fujitsu will try to implement such a device in practice.

Via dvice