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by SonderDesign 6y ago
I'm one of the founders, I exited after the acquisition and now work in VC. It's absolutely possible, the custom EPD was $40USD, we used injection molder keys, and a delrin keyframe. The remaining components for the display timing
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by SonderDesign 6y ago
I'm one of the founders. The site crashed due to the traffic, we sold the technology, IP and some of the key talent joined Foxconn late last year; and scaled back our servers during the transition. I'm a keyboard enthusiast, it st
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by SonderDesign 6y ago
I'm one of the founders, E Ink displays have their display drivers on their glass substrate, meaning you would have a border that on a single key display would be too significant. We went with one large display with only one driving bo
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by SonderDesign 6y ago
I'm one of the founders, the first unit used a prototype EPD from E Ink Holdings, a custom display with around $500k in NRE was developed for a Macbook size keyboard module. This single large display with a magnetic mechanism operating
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by SonderDesign 6y ago
I'm one of the Founders at Sonder. We found from our test units that uses can work up to 30% faster with dynamic keyboards and had strong responses particularly from developers. The company, the intellectual property and some of the ke
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by SonderDesign 7y ago
We're working on that currently for an entire keyboard www.sonderdesign.com
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by SonderDesign 8y ago
Sonder Design Hiring in Sydney Australia, San Francisco and Shenzhen Www.sonderdesign.com We have partnered with he world’s largest largest manufacturer Foxconn to create smart laptop keyboards that show any languages or shortcuts to work
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Our E Ink keyboard startup has developed timing controllers to avoid this. This is 4hz, you can get up to 20 Hz; and play videos or games on E Ink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1tmjDDK7jY
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
I'm the founder of Sonder, an E Ink smart keyboard startup; I've written here previously about E Ink when we were published in WSJ regarding Apple. E Ink is a brilliant display, but the process of manufacturing, cutting the TFT ma
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Because it's a prototype, we went for existing displays and a 60% was the closest. Besides, you for your a 104 key keyboard and the price just doubled. Can't PgUP be remapped, it's a dynamic keyboard.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
It's a patented mechanism, the profile is more similar to the older macbooks but audibly sounds a little like a mech; like a topre, not like cherry blues.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
We wanted to create one standard that could be used for all different layouts. Due to accents used in many Asian and European layouts, and only a few Western European nations adopting ISO (UK et al) we went for a single row enter. We did te
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Great response, answered it for me already. The MOQ is 300k units; we're at economies of scale but it's still a new technology. You're right on the made in China, Suzhou, Shenzhen etc. Bingo also on the third point.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Thanks for the comment, you're very right; but these two were mass production units that still preserved much of what the earlier units great. We have a few earlier Apple alps kbs you mentioned, but I'll shoot the Model F to our s
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
I'm one of the engineers at Sonder, if you have questions just ask!
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
You can only learn from critical analysis, we like a tough crowd.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
The second unit is an attachable numpad that can be used as a standalone or connects magnetically.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
I work mostly on the electrical side but we do interact a lot with the software devs (I can code but only in C++), it's not gospel but I think the scope for the software is an open API.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Correct, the cloud is just an option which is off as standard.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback, some interesting insights from other vim users. P.s The E Ink display isn't in contact with the actual user, the keys are just a transmissive body for the display.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
I agree with your points on ergo design, we did a survey with the thousands on community members and only like 4% would buy an ergo design which was lower than expected. It's important for us to address from a design perspective but we
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
This. P.s I hate this comment on reddit but I couldn't help myself. The mech is also manufactured to the spec for a standard laptop spec, it should feel pretty familiar.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Appreciate the feedback, it's just an option; if the user just wants to rely on the mappings stored on flash they can.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Best analogy is like dropbox, I have files stored on my terminal, but if I want I can back it up online and download new files to my machine. It's just an option that creative design professionals constantly request so it had to be inc
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Laptops have a year horizon, watch this space.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
For your RSI check out keyboardio, it's a nice clean ergo design with a mech.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
There is a satisfying sound to punching out code or emails on a mech switch. You stop noticing the sound but that said some colleagues who love mechs hate working with others who have them.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
Me too :D Once we ship the first laptop module and standalone, it's the planned next product (maybe with colour E Ink if E Ink Holdings has a time line for release).
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
It's the early unit, the new design uses a transmissive medium that projects the display imagery to the key surface.
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by SonderDesign 10y ago
The contrast on the new displays are much better, the spec for E readers (encarta) displays are more forgiving given the application. Mini caps would be expensive and also not a good look as each display has an IC driver bonded to the glass

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