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The Jorno Folding Keyboard

By Rain Noe - September 19, 2012

in Kickstarter | Consumer Electronics

For two years, inventor Scott Starrett and RKS Design have been working on the Jorno, "a truly durable and elegant keyboard" that does something amazing: It folds up into a little 3.5” × 3.5” × 1.2” box.

Meant to be paired with a tablet or even a smartphone via an included cradle, the Bluetooth keyboard weighs less than 9 ounces and has a battery that reportedly lasts for 30 days under normal usage.

As keyboards are such tactile objects, I'd have problems bidding on something like this without testing it out in person; it maxes out at 8.5” wide, and as the keyboard on my MacBook Pro is just under 11”, I'm not confident I could adjust to it. But more than anything I'm impressed with the engineering, and if it takes off, I'm hoping they'll also make a larger size.

At press time they were nearly 20% of the way towards their $100,000 target, with 27 days left to get in on the action.

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Dave Eriksen

12 years ago

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The virtual keyboard has its limits when it comes to folks with large fingertips. All too often, typos occur such that auto-correct only makes things vastly worse. Times like that, a folding keyboard comes in real handy. For the same reason, when I need to type a long response to email, I will turn to my laptop to cope with the task. Typing speed and minimizing time wasted online create space for doing other important things.
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Jon Winebrenner

12 years ago

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Ummmmm....folding keyboards have been around since the Palm V...remember those?

http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/palmpilot/ppk/index.htm
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ofir

12 years ago

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I thought the innovation in the iphone\tablets was that they manage to get rid of the keyboard, wasn't it?
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Ken J

12 years ago

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I love the super functional military/ammunition magazine look!

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