Well, I can’t really give this one the title "Want" because, honestly, I don’t want one. But someone has come out with a Klingon keyboard, for those of you who can’t generate enough guttural mucus with an English one.
Now, I love me some Trek. I readily admit that. But you just have to draw the line somewhere. And in this case, I can’t spell "Doctor Who" with it anyway.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I’m still waiting for a Krell keyboard or at least a Krell Educator (sans nasty side effects).
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
i actually like that … besides who actually looks down at the keyboard while typing these days … “I feel it in my fingers” …
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I thought Klingon was just a Hollywood version of German. Every time I have a bronchial infection, my wife thinks that I’m just practicing for my next trip to Ramstein or something.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I thought it was a Hollywood version of Gaelic.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:10 pm
I hope Penny reads this blog – she’ll know what present to give Sheldon next X-mas!
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Gaelic only sounds like you’re drunk. German has that nice gutteral/”phlegmmy” quality.
Sorry, got silly there.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Actually it wouldn’t be bad if the Klingon “letters” were merely decorative. It would be a fun decoration but it would, IMO, have to actually have a useful purpose.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Mena, if you read some of the comments on the link, the company that made it specializes in making small batch “unique” keyboards. They mostly started out on “real” languages throughout the world, so this was just a natural progression. There is software (according to the article) that wil allow you to type in Klingon using your Klingon keyboard.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
You could just get the Das Keyboard and use your imagination.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Why not just get this one- http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
Then you can have the keys display whatever you want.
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Other options for the blank one?
http://fonts.lordkyl.net/fonts.php?category=3&page=3
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Or go the low-tech steam-punk route.
http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Now, if it were a Tolkien-Elvish keyboard…I’d be whimpering a lot, actually, because I wouldn’t be able to afford to get one.
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:28 pm
For those who play Klingon boggle.
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 am
Interestingly, the image on dvice.com has – besides the klingon symbols – a German key layout, so technically the title of this post should be Q’(wer)-tz!
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 am
That’s a fake Klingon keyboard. Real Klingon keyboards don’t have the ‘Escape’ key!
January 26th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Old Muley: thunder stealer!