Keyboard Wonderland – ENGLISH Version – Part I
Omron
Omron is a special player in this market. Unlike Cherry these guys work almost exclusively directly with OEMs and their switches are hard to find aftermarket. What we can mention here are microswitches (included with Razer, Microsoft, Roccat or Logitech mice) and their B3K switches (Logitech Romer-G, Das Keyboard Gamma Zulu, Creative Labs PRES) and B3KL switches (low profile scissor switches included on Gigabyte Aorys 17 laptops in their clicky variant and the Cooler Master SK851 keyboard which is a full size chiclet keyboard in their linear, tactile, and clicky variants)
Comentarii
Kinesis copied Maltron.
Ian, I’m sorry, but if you point far enough backwards in time a germ gets blamed for splitting in two. Maltron had the ideas but the execution has been thoroughly terrible throughout time and they never caught on. At the same time I didn’t want to touch upon too much history because the article is complex enough as it is.
That being said, Kinesis is one of the first actually ergonomic keyboards that is actually good and was available and came up in searches online back around 2005ish, so I went with it as the contemporary origins. Maltron will always be remembered for this abomination which sold for $400 – https://youtu.be/fkGpFeUQ49Y
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