State-of-the-art keyboard that has a touchpad spacebar!

TermalTake has made mechanical gaming keyboards for a few years, but there hasn’t been much to set them apart from all the Razers and Corsairs of the world. The new Poseidon Z Touch has an interesting trick, though. It looks at first like a standard full keyboard, but the spacebar has multiple touch-sensitive zones that can be used to scroll, zoom in and trigger different functions with a tap or swipe.

The spacebar has a huge surface area, leaving room for all sorts of gestures. Five different zones on the keyboard be programmed to launch macros when tapped and the entire spacebar can be used for gestures that include horizontal and vertical scrolling or zooming in and out. Another gesture can bring up right-click menus. This gives you some of the useful gestures of a laptop touchpad to your gaming keyboard, meaning you get some touchpad features without using extra space.

It’s an interesting idea. Most typists have two thumbs sitting on the spacebar at all times, so it’s not hard to imagine doing things like scrolling just by moving thumbs across the surface. It might be tricky at first to use the taps without actually pressing space, but we imagine users could get the hang of it.

The keyboard comes with blue backlighting with adjustable brightness, though notably there is just the one colour. There’s also anti-ghosting and USB N-Key rollover, meaning whatever keys you press will be precisely the keys that your computer is aware of regardless of how many keys you press at a time.

The mechanical switches on the keyboard come with a five-year warranty, which is generous for any bit of consumer technology. Then again, we are talking about a very pricey keyboard, so warranties should probably last.

Given how reaching for the mouse can take up valuable seconds, we’re curious to imagine how gamers might program such a keyboard to behave.

Watch the video here to learn more about this amazing touchpad keyboard!

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