Hasta La Ideas

If you’re not sold on the Flos × Starck combination dock + lamp, here’s a wireless keyboard that matches both your tablet and your lamp (well, almost): independent designer James Stumpf is less than $1000 (as of press time) of making a so-called “levitating” keyboard a reality; his Kickstarter campaign for the “Levitatr” bluetooth keyboard for “iPads, iPhones, iPods and other devices.”

The seamless renderings—if not the (not yet finalized) prototypes themselves—look something like longer, skinnier speculative tablets; specifically, the iPad. Indeed, Stumpf’s keyboard is “designed around a singular chassis cast in aluminum and precision-machined to its final form”—i.e. a unibody—with high-gloss, injection-molded polycarbonate plastic surfaces, including the keys themselves.

Low-profile scissor switches are used for key actuation. This gives the keyboard swift key actuation and response. Control your basic iPad functions with five hot keys intergrated into Levitatr. Levitatr is powered by a rechargeable built-in Lithium-ion battery.

And while there’s no Mag-Lev involved, at least “the ALUMNM kickstand latches into its resting position via high-powered magnets.”

Missed opportunity: any number of sweet sci-fi sound effects would have worked at 0:50…

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