Give Your Geeks What Their Fingers Desire This Holiday Season: Das Keyboard: The Ultimate Geek Gift for 2005.AUSTIN, Texas -- It's the time of year when Santa is making his list and checking it twice -- and this year he is packing plenty of the year's coolest tech devices on his sleigh sleigh: see sled. . He knows that every computer programmer and Ubergeek will be hoping to unwrap a blank keyboard when they are opening presents in just a few short weeks. Metadot Corporation is urging all shoppers to consider Das Keyboard Das Keyboard is a high-end computer keyboard with no inscriptions on the keys; that is, the keys themselves are both completely black and blank. The name comes from the German word das (the in German) simply translated to "The Keyboard". for the geeks on their holiday shopping list. Das Keyboard is an enhanced 104-key USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. PC keyboard (1) Any keyboard made for the PC. (2) The keyboard introduced with the first IBM PC in 1981 that provided a dual-function keypad for numeric entry and cursor movement. equipped with blank keys mounted on precision and individually-weighted key switches. Since users cannot look at the keys while typing, their brains adapt and memorize mem·o·rize tr.v. mem·o·rized, mem·o·riz·ing, mem·o·riz·es 1. To commit to memory; learn by heart. 2. Computer Science To store in memory: the key positions, resulting in faster and more accurate typing. In addition to its unique appearance, Das Keyboard features five different levels of force required to activate its keys. Whereas most keyboards use a standard 55 grams of force to register each key, Das Keyboard's keys are divided into groups with feedback springs weighted differently, from 35 grams to 80 grams, which corresponds to the strength of the finger that touches the keys. The result is more comfort for the user's hands. Das Keyboard is built from premium keyswitch technology and its keys are factory-tested to withstand over 30 million keystrokes. "Give your geeks what they truly desire this holiday season," said Birgit Guermeur, project manager for Das Keyboard. "If you have someone on your list who is passionate about technology, whether they love to play games or write code, Das Keyboard is the perfect gift. Not only does the keyboard look really cool, but it can help enhance their productivity because it will teach them to stop looking down at their fingers while they are typing." Das Keyboard is compatible with all modern operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. including Windows, Linux and MacOS X. Priced at $79.95, Das Keyboard is available now from the company's Web site at www.daskeyboard.com or from ThinkGeek, Inc. (www.thinkgeek.com) at 888-433-5788. Das Keyboard is a division of Metadot Corporation, the developer of one of the world's most popular free, open-source portal server (1) A network server that deploys portal services to a public Web site or internal intranet. See portal. (2) An application that is used to develop, deliver and maintain a Web portal. solutions. Founded in 2000, Metadot is a privately-held corporation based in Austin, Texas. For more information on Das Keyboard, log on to www.daskeyboard.com. |
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