20 May 2015, 10:25

Spoiler:

Control walk speed of a character or speed of a car in a video-game

Emulate a piano or other musical instrument

Control scroll speed through an excel document

Use cursor keys to control mouse pointer movement

Topre are going to demo some new stuff at Computex (2nd - 6th of June). I'm allowed to spill the beans on what it will be in a DESKTHORITY exclusive news storyNot sure how it's going to be implemented. I asked whether or not there would be new keycaps made by Topre but unfortunately he wasn't sure. This will be a crowd pleaser for the gamer/bling crowd, and my guess is they will probably make their way into OEM boards (e.g. NovaTouch) before they would appear in a Realforce.Most of you are probably familiar with the Realforce prototype with the dial on it to adjust the actuation point...Well, Topre have apparently come up with a more elegant solution that will enable the user to control actuation via software. Not yet known if this will work with current Realforces. Will update later if I hear more info.I only found out about this one today. What this means is that we could have pressure sensitive switches. The applications here are pretty obvious but some that spring to mind:It all sounds pretty cool to me. I expressed my concerns about 2 and 3 and how well they would work with Topre's tactile switches. The current implementation for the actuation control and analog switches is on their existing switch design. The 30-35g Topre switch is probably the most appropriate for this new tech, but we'll have to wait and see if anything has to change in that regard...maybe a heavier spring is in order?