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If gleaming white plastic and brushed aluminum don’t suit your fancy when it comes to keyboards, a French design shop called Orée will hand craft you a beautiful alternative made from your choice of either maple or walnut wood. But if you thought keeping your current keyboard clean was a pain, imagine having to sand and re-stain it every year.
At £100 the Orée Board is more than twice what you’ll pay for Apple’s own wireless Bluetooth keyboard, but you’re paying a premium for craftsmanship, the ability to customise the key layout including the font, and of course, the occasional splinter. No pain no gain, right? While Orée promises the utmost precision when it comes to all the keys and their assembly, it’s still made of wood which expands and contracts with the temperature and humidity. So depending on the weather it could either look like a beautiful piece of finely crafted art, or a C+ high school shop class project.
[Orée via designboom]
Wow, this is actually a keyboard that I would consider buying.
You mean you’re so picky that you havent bought a keyboard yet?
So I take it you’re using the keyboard you bought in 1997?
All materials expand and contract with temperature…
The main thing you wouldn’t want is to spill something on it and have the wood warp.
If all the bits are made from the same wood, wouldn’t they all expand and contract the same amount?
Not entirely, depends on how moisture is absorbed which side is closer to a door or window.
No doubt any engineer worth his salt working with natural composites (Wood) would have cracked the sap during an oven baking process making it dimensionally stable. The thing which makes wood warp is the breakdown of sap over the years and as knowledge of the material has progressed, so has making it more dimensionally stable throughout all climates. I would buy this in heartbeat if I were not poor.
Use this keyboard for a few months and you will quickly learn why wipe clean plastic or metal is best.