Made for portability, Microsoft’s Mobile Keyboard 6000 is just a few mm thicker than an AAA battery at the rear, requires Bluetooth, and can be purchased with a separate number pad.

An external version of the popular laptop keyboard, Lenovo’s ThinkPad USB Keyboard was crowdsourced via their design blog; users happily ditched the touchpad, numpad and wireless.

Alienware dives into gaming accessories with its own private label TactX Keyboard and Mouse; both sport customizable lighting, user profiles and buttons, albeit at a premium price.

iKey’s AK-39 keyboard is for real military use and meets MIL-461 standards; features include EM shielding, FSR pointing device and green LED backlighting with night vision abilities.

Made for gamers and professionals, OCZ’s Sabre Keyboard has nine OLED keys which can be programmed with images or text; 128 MB onboard memory stores app-specific macros.

Targeted towards media centers, Brando’s wireless Entertainment Slim Keyboard includes a multi-touchpad that doubles as a numeric keypad; it also includes 18 media hotkeys.

You’re not playing with yourself, you’re just playing Tetris: these funky DIY keyboard pants by Zach Hoeken are actually only half functional but definitely put the quirky in QWERTY.

Fresh from Brando, this Tiny Trackball Keyboard isn’t the first compact wireless keyboard we’ve seen, but it still manages to be somewhat pocketable with a trackball and 29 hotkeys.

Straight from the shipyards of Q’onos, this Klingon Keyboard is a standard 105 key with a PS/2 connection (USB is for Federation wussies); just don’t spill any gagh on it, you p’tahk!

The lack of a physical keyboard has been a downer for many iPhone fans, but Mat Brady’s proposal for a third party solution might do the trick; it’s sleek and also doubles as a case.

If you like the tactile feel of scissor switch keys, Acer is gearing up to release an Eee-branded wireless keyboard + mouse combo, with a minimalist look that matches the Eee well.

Measuring a scant 6.7 inches, Brando’s Super Tiny keyboard isn’t recommended for fat fingers; thankfully, its scissor-switch style keys are backlit, making them easy to see (if not press).

Fans of clickety clackety keyboards will love the Das Keyboard II; there’s plenty of tactile feedback with its mechanical keys, which can also detect up to 12 simultaneous keypresses.

Made for WoW’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion, this limited edition SteelSeries Zboard allows up to 7 simultaneous keystrokes (“anti-ghosting”) and macro customization.

Microsoft’s Aero interface is translated into reality with their Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000; both the border and media buttons are translucent, dressing up an otherwise utilitarian design.

Jake von Slatt is one of the better-known steampunk artists; above, Wired interviews him. Datamancer has actually taken von Slatt’s idea and sells Mac and PC steampunk keyboards.