Portable keyboards that can be printed on paper are developing a weight of only 30g

How thin can the keyboard be? Novalia's answer is the thickness of a piece of paper. And their approach is to print the keyboard on paper. Novalia announced last week that the company was developing a portable keyboard that could be printed on paper and connected to a Low-power soc embedded in a cardboard, according to geeky gadgets. Novalia uses a special conductive ink to suppress a touch matrix substrate, and then cascade with the printed buttons, remove the battery weight of only 30g, due to the use of conductive ink, so this keyboard touch technology without any mechanical devices. The printing keyboard is equipped with a Nordic semiconductor chip that controls Bluetooth connectivity and input control, so the keyboard can be connected to the device via Bluetooth low-power and ultra-low power performance guarantees up to 18 months of battery endurance. "The salient feature of this product is that it can literally hit the sensor from the keyboard, and it is completely free of metal wiring and can be produced anywhere in the world using the local printing process, so the cost is very low." Novalia chief executive Kate Stone says the printed keyboard can be printed at a speed of about 100 meters per minute, using standard press printing. Novalia's design team says the keyboard can be even thinner to 0.005 millimeters and can still achieve the normal function of a keyboard at the same speed. But that doesn't mean that our keyboard will be replaced by a printed paper keyboard. In fact, novalia companies are not thinking about innovation in keyboard interaction technology, but in the mining of interactive posters, personalized greeting cards and other direction of the potential. For example, the company shows a set of posters with jazz drums, the front includes 7 drums, the poster is actually a printing keyboard, through Bluetooth connection to the iphone or the ipad, when the user's fingers touch the drum surface, you can hit the paper drum effect. Similarly, Novalia companies can also launch different customized printing keyboards, in advertising and other fields to make breakthrough attempts. When the keyboard can be printed in bulk, meaning that the cost of traditional interactive methods is greatly reduced, which means that touch can be applied to more cost-constrained media, we may see newspapers and magazines and electronic equipment interaction, then the fading paper media will usher in a new life.