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Motorized typing angle adjustment

The M-One from Besides Studios uses lifting motors to adjust typing angle.

KBD.news
Published July 7, 2021

No flipdown feet – that's for peasants now…

This is probably the first keyboard using lifting motors to adjust typing angle (from 3 to 7 degrees).

A fancy button next to the arrows will lower or raise the keyboard.

Necessary? Absolutely not. But it's fun…

Published on Wed 7th Jul 2021. Featured in KBD #34 (source).

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