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Korea Steno Smart CAS Plus
The Korea Steno Smart CAS Plus – an authoritative Korean steno machine.
Published February 17, 2022
This beast is the Korea Steno Smart CAS Plus – as you may guess, a Korean steno machine.
When introducing people to stenography, the method is often likened to playing piano chords. Korea Steno took this analogy to the next level by implementing not just actual levers resembling the type bars of mechanical typewriters but also a keypress mechanism dampened by "premium quality buffer wool" – just like the damper felts, cushions and cloths on various parts of the piano hammer mechanism.
This should result in a pretty silent build, and there are several measurements published on their website, but let me congratulate at this point on including ALL the text as images – preventing non-Koreans from feeding the content into Google Translate…
Anyway, allegedly, this steno machine is much more silent compared to a standard keyboard, as well as the force needed to actuate its keys is lower (in the 15-20cN range). As a bonus, the huge hole in the case can be used as a handle.
For a whopping $2,400 you can put your hands on this nice steno keyboard too.
Published on Thu 17th Feb 2022. Featured in KBD #66 (source).
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