Bluetooth Keyboards

If you want a compact, portable Bluetooth keyboard, why make it any bigger or heavier than it has to be? That's the thinking behind the Fusion Keyboard 2.0, which places a multi-touch trackpad beneath its touch-sensitive keys.

Not everybody wants the gaudy, RGB LED-backlit look of modern keyboards. Accessory company 8BitDo has unveiled retro-styled mechanical keyboards inspired by Nintendo’s first games consoles, complete with giant, programmable A and B buttons.

A Canadian company thinks the humble keyboard can do a lot more than we've seen from it over the past six decades or so. Its Nomad keyboard has a widget-based screen and a crazy amount of customization, thanks to a community-based approach.

Although electric typewriters have been made almost entirely obsolete, there's something to be said for the satisfying "clickety-clack" of their keys. Well, that sound and feel is back, in the all-aluminum Fineday 3.0 Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard.

You can build just about anything out of Lego, and now that even includes your keyboard. Pixel is a new mechanical keyboard from MelGeek that can be customized with Lego bricks around the rim, on the back or even on the keys themselves.

Bluetooth keyboards are great when you need to type on a tablet, but a built-in trackpad would be useful. Rather than bulk out the form factor, Belarus-based Clevetura is launching a keyboard that turns the keying area into a touch-sensitive trackpad when the user isn't typing.

Changing key layouts on a real-world keyboard usually involves swapping to another input peripheral, but the Nemeio changes that by making each key a little electronic ink screen that can be set to a user's preference in companion software.​

​A company called Lofree is betting that people will want to use a keyboard that closely mimics the feel of a typewriter. Based on the runaway success of its current Indiegogo campaign, that bet seems sound. But after getting our fingers on one, we're not so sure we feel the same.

If you’re looking for a unit that ditches wires, plays nice with mobile devices, and can reduce your desktop clutter, the latest K780 keyboard from Logitech may be the one for you. We recently had the chance to get hands and fingers on, to put it to the test.​

One alternative to typing with your thumbs is to pack along a folding Bluetooth keyboard. We recently got hold of an iClever IC-BK03 Trifold Bluetooth keyboard and tried it out.

LG has brought the flexibility of rollable keyboards and the rigidity of foldable keyboards together in its Rolly Keyboard, which it calls the industry's first solid rollable wireless portable keyboard.

It can get confusing, trying to remember which keys are used for which shortcuts in which programs. That's why Sonder Design developed the Sonder keyboard. Utilizing e-ink technology, its keys can change appearance and function, depending on the application being used.