What's Perky? My Handmade Keyboard

The links in that page have more details about the internal parts of the keyboard. (In the first image it's not clear what/where is the keyboard.)

There are too many. I think that these are interesting:

* 20 home keys: http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/homekey.htm

* How to make: http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/make.htm

It's interesting that this got posted so soon after the Plover stenographic keyboard. I watched the YouTube presentation for it and one of the audience members was asking about the potential for applying that keyboard functionality to his iPhone, to which Mirabai Knight's response was maybe if Google Glass takes off, and that there would be potential to type on your legs or something. I would have liked to see what this guy thought about Osamu Hirai's (Perky author) iKKGon keyboard for iPhone:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/iKKGon-iPhone-en.htm

I'm not understanding exactly how this works, but it seems like he's limiting the number of letters to the minimum required to get an auto-completed word.

Also interesting note, the Plover/stenographic keyboard article title states 240 wpm, and if you look at the 5 strokes/second link here there is a claim of 300 wpm. However, I'm sure it's difficult to compare wpm in Japanese versus English.

Compare with the ol' DataHand [1] and the upcoming King's Assembly [2]. This one looks like it might be a most alien yet effective design, but I dislike the "chorded word" idea, because it has to rely on some sort of dictionary-based predictive text technique. Honestly I find all of these seem less efficient than a standard keyboard, but maybe that's just me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70308014/kings-assembly...

Man this is freaking awesome. If anyone knows more or can translate, I'd love to hear.

So far browsing around one can find a few videos in action (although the words per minute seems pretty low, not sure if it's due to the design or because one needs to learn a new system before he gets up to speed.)

Check out the other stuff, too, absolutely love it. e.g. the mini ring: http://homepage2.nifty.com/perky/mini-ring.htm

Does anyone know how the typing works, is it a steno-type thing where you use a personal dictionary?

If anyone can direct me to websites of other advanced and unique diy tinkerers, please feel free!

I seem to be be missing something here. I don't see anything that looks like a keyboard. The page that loads looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/AYtQPj0.jpg