Hacoa’s Ki-Board is a creative twist on the mundane world of plastic mass production. Created entirely of carefully selected hardwoods of the highest quality, each keyboard is lovingly fashioned by a Japanese master craftsman in a labour-intensive process at the rate of just one per day. Sources: Alexcious, Timberbiz
Offered in a choice of either maple or walnut, the Ki-Board is roughly the same size as a standard keyboard and uses a USB interface compatible with standard PCs and comes with a trio of LED lights to display the Scroll Lock, Caps Lock, and Number Lock status.
The lettering of the keycaps is laser-engraved and will not wear off. The 89 keys are cut out from a single panel of wood, fashioned and returned to the same position so that the completed Ki-Board’s grain pattern flows naturally.
Combining nature, creativity and precision engineering, the Ki-Board is simply outstanding in both form and feel. Clean lines, fabulous natural texture and a great clickity-clack sound provide a satisfying, truly unique and luxurious typing experience.
The Ki-Board is created from renewable, sustainable and recyclable resources. ‘Ki’ is both ‘wood’ and ‘tree’ in Japanese. The price for the keyboard is around US$751.
Hacoa specialises in producing a vast array of crafted wooden products from clocks to key rings and keyboards.
