폰테크 달인 Google Japan’s concept keyboard is inspired by rotary phones 

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A person using their finger to turn a dial on Google Japan’s concept keyboard.

Feeling overproductive at work? Google Japan’s new concept keyboard gives you a chance to slow down. | Image: YouTube / Google Japan

Following an April Fools’ Day prank in 2021 that had a delayed reveal as a result of the pandemic, Google Japan has been cooking up weird and wonderful keyboard concepts year after year. Its latest creation seems straight out of an alternate dimension where touch-tone technology never replaced rotary phones, and that functionality eventually found its way into other devices.

Instead of keys, the Gboard Dial Version keyboard features various alphanumeric characters and functions laid out beneath a series of nine dials of various sizes, including one just for the return key. To type a specific character, you stick your finger in its corresponding hole and then rotate the dial until you reach its limit. When you release it, the dial rotates back.

A person turns dial on a concept keyboard created by Google Japan.

Rotary phones used a technique called pulse dialing, where a spring-loaded dial generated a series of electrical pulses as it rotated back to its home position. The phone company would decode those pulses to determine what number was being dialed. Google Japan’s Gboard Dial Version trades pulse dialing for modern sensors that translate each dial’s rotational movements into USB signals.

A short video showing a person turning off their webcam during a video call by placing their mouse on a short stand.

And similar to the phones of yesteryear that ended a call when you physically hung them up, the dial keyboard’s designers created an accompanying stand that turns off your webcam during a video call when you place your mouse atop it.

As with Google Japan’s past creations that have included a cylindrical keyboard in the shape of a Japanese Yunomi tea cup and a 65-inch-long monstrosity with all the keys of a QWERTY keyboard arranged in one long strip, the Dial Version isn’t available for sale. But if you really want to obliterate your typing speed, you’re welcome to build your own. Google has open-sourced its design, and you can find all the files needed to DIY one, including 3D printer models, PCB designs, and a parts list, available for download on GitHub.

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