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Magnnus  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sonder E-ink keyboard, coming soon

How much does this cost? Every time I've seen a neat keyboard like this, it's ridiculously expensive.





aloysius  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They seem to have a pre-order page listing it for $200, and to be regularly priced at $300, which seems astoundingly cheap compared with similar keyboards, and makes me kind of paranoid about the quality. I'm wondering when this will be released.

Sonderdesign  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

G'day. We're releasing later in the year on Kickstarter, we just received a govt. grant and was busily working before a big surprise until Cult Of Mac did a piece on us last week. I figured I'd see what further feedback there was from the community. The greater volume we can get, the more competitively we can price our product.

Perhaps subscribe at sonderdesign.com too!

paxprose  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is it within your design specifications to have an api to interface with the keyboard to allow users to create custom commands (and perhaps little icons?).

Sonderdesign  ·  3455 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Correct, we have a few more details at Sonderdesign.com but it will come with a driver and we will also host a library where users can generate and share macros, widgets and layouts.

aloysius  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you plan on making any different variations of this type of keyboard? I enjoy the idea but I don't like the Mac style or the absence of a number pad.

Sonderdesign  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We certainly shall, we are exploring further products once we ship the first, full 104 key keyboards + perhaps with RGB EPD (color e-ink), Subscribe at sonderdesign.com to keep informed!