{"id":6716,"date":"2008-03-31T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T08:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/skypekeyboard-convergence.html"},"modified":"2008-03-31T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T08:39:29","slug":"skypekeyboard-convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/skypekeyboard-convergence.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype+Keyboard Convergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekalerts.com\/u\/31-flex-keyboard2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everything seems to be coming together &#8212; camera, phones, e-mail devices, etc. It was just a matter of time before a company decided to merge Skype, a keyboard and silicon to develop a VoIP-ready keyboard with microphone and speaker built-in.<\/p>\n<p>It is bendable, waterproof, has a two-port USB hub, a volume control and LEDs to indicate status.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that I am not sure where I would use such a product. Perhaps outside in the rain &#8212; assuming my computer and monitor are protected from the elements?<\/p>\n<p>Would this product be the ideal boating accessory? Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Would this keyboard be great for parents who want to work at the kitchen table without the fear associated with spills?<\/p>\n<p>You have to hand it to the designer who got my attention by integrating such disparate items into a single waterproof package.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there is now officially no excuse for not blogging or Skyping in the rain. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usbfever.com\/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=658\">USB Fever<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekalerts.com\/flexible-keyboard-with-skype-phone-usb-hub-2\/\">GeekAlerts<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything seems to be coming together &#8212; camera, phones, e-mail devices, etc. It was just a matter of time before a company decided to merge Skype, a keyboard and silicon to develop a VoIP-ready keyboard with microphone and speaker built-in. It is bendable, waterproof, has a two-port USB hub, a volume control and LEDs to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,202,172,199,203,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}