The Touchpad Keyboard Could Revolutionize Laptops and Become a Standard

If you’re like me, it’s pretty hard to find a keyboard that satisfies your needs. Everyone likes the keyboard’s buttons to have a specific distance between them, needs some specific buttons while other disturb him. Fortunately this touchpad keyboard concept is able to fulfill everyone’s needs by allowing you to customize the buttons as you like. And everything is just fine as long as you don’t have anything against using a touchpad keyboard instead of a physical one.

The Fujitsu Keyless Lifebook concept allows you to customize everything on the touchpad. You can choose your preferred layout, you can include or exclude specific keys and even choose a color for each key. And you can even place the trackpad wherever you want. I am not a big fan of this idea, because I still  find it pretty hard to use a virtual keyboard instead of a physical one, but this one might make me change my mind.

Another great featured of the Fujitsu Keyless Lifebook touchpad is that it allows you to save keyboard profiles which you can change depending on what you have to do. You can set a profile for gaming, one for working with number where you can include a numpad and an ergonomic one for typing faster and easier. You can even set profiles for different languages, so if you are bilingual, you can easily choose to another language without having to remember where all the other symbols must be. It’s exactly like having multiple physical keyboards.

And if you still aren’t convinced this keyboard can prove to be very useful, think about the plenty of ways you can use it. It can be used as a graphic design tablet, you can easily switch from left to right-handed and it could also feature swype.

Unfortunately you won’t find this in stores yet, but it’s also not a science fiction concept and all the technologies used already exist, so it’s possible to become available in the near future. And if Fujitsu doesn’t decide to take this step, I am confident another company will use this idea and start working on it.

And a fact that Fujitsu didn’t specify, but I believe it’s true, is that you can use the Fujitsu Keyless Lifebook as a twin-display tablet, which makes it very attractive.

The Fujitsu Keyless Lifebook concept has been submitted to Fujitsu’s 2011 Design Awards, so currently it’s just a rendering.