Awesome Ridiculous

For the last 12 years, Google Japan has been having a little fun with silly and impractical keyboard designs. Their latest concept is a keyboard that’s basically a Möbius strip – a twisted keyboard that loops back onto itself. It has 208 keys and has to be picked up to access them all, but it’s also awesome. Best of all, you can build your own. Turn captions on.

Watch mechanical keyboard enthusiast Lightning build VK.Works’ The Compensator. It’s a hilarious monstrosity that takes the 40% layout and adds the arrow keys, the six specialized keys, the numpad, and eight macro keys. On both sides. See the finished build at 2:49:20 and join VK.Works’ Discord channel to learn more.

We recently watched an educational film on what to do when you encounter people walking in the opposite direction on a sidewalk. This wacky CG-animated short posted by TecoMalu shows an alternative method that involves a horizontal booster pack that helps you quickly maneuver around other pedestrians.