Wouldn't a $5 keyboard and a $2 bottle of Wite-Out (Tipp-Ex for you Brits) prove just as effective?

If you must have the clacking sound of the keyboard then apply the whiteout to that old IBM keyboard you've got stashed in the cupboard.

Paris, because she's permanently blank too

I imagine Hotblack Desiato will be interested in this one.

"Wouldn't a $5 keyboard and a $2 bottle of Wite-Out (Tipp-Ex for you Brits) prove just as effective?"

There's no way I'd take TippEx to either of my old IBM Model M keyboards, although this thing does look uncannily like the IBM 'Preferred' keyboard I use at home.

I achieved the same effect with a black permanent marker.

I guess despite the quirky marketing, this is being pushed as a keyboard that can be labelled up according to specific needs. Think video editing etc.

Kudos for sporting what appears to be a 100% standard layout, unlike most keyboards currently available claiming to.

I wonder if Dell are eyeing them up, so they can fix future keyboard layout screw-ups with a bottle of thinners and a driver disk?

"Paris, because she's permanently blank too." - hliarious

WTF, who blacks out their keys? I haven't looked at my keyboard to type in about 15 years, but that doesn't mean I want the key names removed... it's not a piano. And thank you Mavis Beacon, for freeing me from hunting and pecking all those years ago...

Maybe it would help with some pesky kids that won't leave daddy's gaming computer alone... but a good butt whoopin' would do a lot more.

Anyone else get teh impression that these guys got sent a bunch of blank keys by mistake?

“Kudos for sporting what appears to be a 100% standard layout, unlike most keyboards currently available claiming to.”

Not 100% standard. The left Shift key's too wide, the # key's in the ‘wrong’ place, and the \ key is missing…

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In the light of my typing prowess, or lack of it, I think I shall stick to the current arrangements. I can cock things up quite adequately already, thank you!!!

Shouldn't that be the " " key, the " " key and the " " key?

I learned to touch type on a typewriter (note for the experience-impaired: a mechanical device for squeezing ink in letter shapes from a ribbon onto paper) without key legends. It did have colour coded key caps, though, as a guide to which finger was meant to be used. A great learning aid - I've never looked back since. Or down. Much.

How can it be? The keys aren't labelled.

Or, if it is, it's an AZERTY, Dvorak and SJWORP keyboard too.

I achieved the same effect by using the same, cheap-arse keyboard for 18 years, the letters just rub off anyway!

Perhaps I'm the odd one here {being an Evil Penguin-Shagging Communist and all that} but I look mainly at the keyboard when I'm typing, not the screen -- I can have confidence that the key I watched myself press will cause the letter or punctuation mark I wanted to appear.