Surprised to see no updates in a month, nothing on the twitter feed, nothing. Delays happen and I am sure it is total crunch time, but it seems a bit unusual. Please let us know what is going on.

Yeah, how are things moving along? Its been a while....

Any update? Current status of the project? TIA!

I can see one quick market for a bunch of keyboards - for the computer terminals at Virgin Galactic.

Sorry mistype, meant semiweekly, always mix those up

Thanks Jason. I for one cannot wait! I am still unsure if I can still use this at work lol but I will try!! In any case, the concept is awesome and cannot wait for it! Again thanks for any updates you can give us. And I understand this is not your primary job, and being a backer is not mine :). An update from another person on your team could possibly do it? Just shooting ideas out there. I don't need an instant updates, but some communication would be indeed welcomed.

Not to tear you away from your job(s), but go back to work! :) And thanks!

Is it too much to ask for weekly(even bi-weekly) updates till they start leaving the production line(s)?
C'mon, we're all on the edge of our seats here....
Personally I thought this was an awesome idea when i very first set eyes on it...

Best thing about this product, is how it will be hackable.

As a touch typist and software programmer, I hate moving my right hand off the keyboard to the mouse. If I can press a key-combo with my left hand, and have the UIOP JKL: M<>? area become a mouse, I'll be very happy.
I still ordered the mouse with the keyboard.

...you're killing us with suspense here...

Hey could we get a little update about the progress? :) Do you already have working prototypes?

Cannot wait till I get mine...
When's the next progress update?

I just want to know when I can buy these for everyone I know :D

like you wear in CES ?

Do you have plan to sell "Giggingspd.com"T-shirt ?

Congratulation - this promises to be a very interesting and innovative product.

Sadly this is not a quick question and it is understandable that there is much going on for you with CES and the funding cycle being released.

I am posting this hear so as to hopefully stem multiple PMs in trying to clarify this.

You see, I like over 100 others went the conservative approach with the Name Game BUT the form we are being directed to provides no image upload capability or memo field for the name/logo description - simply a single blank field.

I am stating this because understandably all the information that we have given to work with was on earlier Q&A, and posting - after all, YOU actually have to build this so things are "hectic" in other areas - specifically:
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How do I submit my product name for the Name-Game?
When the product funds, I will send out a survey with the option to include a name as well as a way to include any images or logo that my help you convince me that yours is best.
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Anyone who pledges $10 or $25 will have a chance to name the product and if their name is used they will win a complete multi-touch keyboard and mouse combo! The names will be picked based on impact, memorablity, website availability, and artistic value. Please feel free to submit an image or logo concept with your product name if it will help convey your intent.
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My reason for asking is simple, those with the notion of taking the time to help you name and brand your product ideally understand the branding and marketing, did the research on competitors branding, your desire of available domain names, to come up with a number of graphic design variants and concepts prior to submission.

All which is a bit more involved than filling in a blank field with "XTREMEboard " with a few exclamation points - considering the community you are addressing in this venue, I wouldn't believe you were simply expecting "lightboard pro" to satisfy your earlier requests.

If you or someone can clarify the submission guidelines along with some hard dates that would go a long way to making this work out for all of us involved.

Thanks for any follow up you can give us

Re-configurable keys would also be useful for languages with non-Roman characters. Many of them switch back and forth. Would look so slick on this product.

Wired here as well. Thanks for the update! I'd prefer a wired version. I guess that would leave out the need for batteries or will you leave that as an "option" or will you have a wired version and a wireless version as well? Doing this, will this lengthen the time in shipping out the wired versions vs the wireless(bluetooth) ones?

No video? Would be nice to se it in action.

@Marcus and Jason can you take some picture of the prototype.
I thing all if us want to see it very much

Shame no booth. Just landed here in vegas for CES and would love to see the prototype in person!

A wired version for those of us required to use windows and tired of the endless stream of wireless security holes associated with wireless devices would be nice. Admittedly, many of the problems in this area has been Windows + Bluetooth.

Hi Jason -
First of all; congratulations on achieving funding and good luck with CES! Can't wait for the mouse to arrive on my doormat later this year!
Will there be time for a (small?) mid CES update, possibly with photo's/video of the booth/demo for those less fortunate of us that can't make it out to LV?

The Iphone reference wasn't my intention at all. It ended up that way by using glass material... I guess I need to add more lightning and/or modify the mesh...

@Chillance I like you curve but black line make it look like i4 with black bumper.

Look what I threw together in Blender just for the heck of it:
http://i1015.photobucket.com/albums/af280/Chillance/multitouch_mouse.png

Sorry for the bevelling and rounding though... need to work more on that...

Hi Jason! Happy new year and congress on successful funding!
Question/suggestion. Can the base material be made of glass as well?
Alternatively, will/could there be color options?
Thanks and looking forward to your progress
Cheers

YAY!!! I'm so glad this got funded!

My only wish is that I could have afforded to put more in :)

I sent this as a message earlier, figured I might as well post it here to :)

Just reading the FAQ about using photovoltaic panels to charge the keyboard and I was wondering if there was any consideration given to "motion powered" charging (example in the link below). There's a possibility that movement across the wrist pads and the movement across the mouse itself may have enough motion to generate a charge.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/piezoelectronic-device-electricity-motion.html

looking good jason...

Wow only 15 hour. ^_^

I'm sure you had thought of it, but any reason why your going with a proprietary dongle instead of bluetooth?

@David That would be a cool concept! But being that expensive would make it like the Optimus Maximus kb that not all of us can purchase at our salaries. This is a great belated birthday gift to myself!
But back to the point of a notification of the current configuration. The only option at this point while being in almost production is to have the notification be software driven and be on one of your monitors. It can be a "toast" notification that will go away after a breif moment or a pop up one that can be closed by the user. Just a thought.

Just a few thoughts on where this could go and possibly make it really expensive.
I am wondering if in a future version of this it would be possible to combine this with oLED or Quantum Dots to show the current configuration of the keyboard. There would need to be a control program to reconfigure the keyboard during operation by the press of a button or acceessing a certain program. Would be especially good if the configurations could be created by the user. Just thinking it could be a good thing for use in games and programs with lots of shortcuts so that the most used combinations could be given a single button.

Does USB 3.0 even really matter for a Human Input Device?
Most keyboards haven't even crossed the USB 1.1 barrier, due to the fact that 12MB/s is still pretty fast... I don't care how fast of a typist you are, you are not going to be typing 98 million characters per second.

Not sure if this was addressed but are these peripherals going to be USB 3.0?

Jason, if you would like, I have a couple Fingerworks keyboards and can send one to you for review.

Hi Jason,
Here is a link to the documents for the Fingerworks Keyboard. I really like the shift gesture and I love the layout of having the enter key, space bar backspace and delete all accessible by thumbs. Good luck! I can't wait to see how this turns out!
http://fingerfans.dreamhosters.com/viewtopic.php…

Awesome that this is funded... I can't wait until this rolls into my office in the spring / summer next year. Clearly there is a lot of work to do in development, but it is great Jason that you are interacting with all of us on ideas.

It that vein, on clicks for the mouse... I am not sure if the company named after a fruit has patented all their gestures but I am really liking the double tap one finger for left click and two fingers for right click on my pro. I also think that idea of being able to convert the number input area into a mouse when it is not being used shows the great flexibility this thing has... to this end, I would hope that the driver software would have ways to store multiple keyboard layouts and maybe an area on the keyboard (or a hard button) could be allocated to toggling between configurations?

Keep up the great work Jason!

Corey