Keyboard pants

posted May 11th 2009 11:03am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: peripherals hacks, wearable hacks

kbpants

[Zach] sent us a link to his keyboard pants. Frankly, we were astonished, not only by his craftsmanship, but by the fact that we were working on a pair ourselves. Admittedly his are much better looking and ours will probably never be finished. The inspiration for both his and ours, was this sloppy version. [Zach's] pair have been cut in half, and he never really found a convenient way to reconnect the two halves, so only the left works. Watch this video to see him playing some Tetris in his awesome shorts.

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whats next – a pants/joystick mod?

Posted at 11:24 am on May 11th, 2009 by Vonskippy

@ vonskippy:

lol!!

Posted at 11:56 am on May 11th, 2009 by andrew

Man I want these… I hope he/she/they make some more..I would give sexual favors… or cash I guess.

Posted at 12:52 pm on May 11th, 2009 by french t0ast

the y key is on the wrong side

Posted at 12:57 pm on May 11th, 2009 by bort

@vonskippy–the pants these and hackadays were inspired by already has a joystick in the zipper

Posted at 1:19 pm on May 11th, 2009 by mike

I can see the “d” key, at least I think so??
I would imagine that those pants get hot/sweating

@bort “the y key is on the wrong side” how do you figure???

Posted at 1:57 pm on May 11th, 2009 by kyle007

@kyle007
bort might have a different reason, but ive always known the y key as a ‘right-side’ key, since it is typed with your right hand, provided you are typing correctly.

Posted at 2:13 pm on May 11th, 2009 by thetwiz

for touch typing

Posted at 2:14 pm on May 11th, 2009 by bort

@kyle007:
because when you touch type, you hit the y key with your left hand, but on this keyboard its on the right hand side.

then again, if your a touch typist, youve got muech bigger problems using these, like the curved, moving surface, and the fact that flexible keyboards are awful. i had one once, and its hard enought to use on a flat, hard surface. they keys sort of, well, flex around and don’t usually trigger a key press (or maybe mine was just a badly designed one?)

Posted at 2:16 pm on May 11th, 2009 by Peter

a quick way to fix the left right no connection problem would be to use two keyboards and a usb hub

Posted at 2:38 pm on May 11th, 2009 by neorazz

thats a crazies thing, but its hard to handle , a keyboard on a lap

Posted at 2:56 pm on May 11th, 2009 by pratikroom.blogspot.com

dude, i am making this this week! no doubt!

Posted at 3:15 pm on May 11th, 2009 by f1rel1ghtgu1tar

Surely these keyboard pants were inspired by the keyboard pants worn by Alex Jacobson in the award-winning game from 2000, Deus Ex.

Posted at 3:56 pm on May 11th, 2009 by Brett Kelley

@peter:
Given that the Y key is closer to the right index finger on a standard keyboard layout, it should be on the right.

I think the biggest potential problem is doing laundry… has he got a solution for that?

Posted at 4:00 pm on May 11th, 2009 by Capital C

Yeah as peter last mentioned how do you wash these?

Posted at 4:39 pm on May 11th, 2009 by Bryan

if you want both sides to work.. use 2 usb keyboards, left half of one and the right of the other – then join the halves up to a USB hub :P

and how about a trackball mouse under the zip for the ladies? lol :P

Posted at 5:58 pm on May 11th, 2009 by omg_a_gecko

Umm, the y key is on the left. I have always hit ‘y’ with my left hand too. Whoever said it is on the right side in the pic… are you blind?

Posted at 6:18 pm on May 11th, 2009 by BAF

Umm the y key is closer to my right index finger, so I’ve always hit it with my right index finger. Why would you reach further with the left index finger to hit it?

Posted at 7:08 pm on May 11th, 2009 by smilr

Bluetooth and this would be the most awesome. however, this is pretty awesome.

Posted at 7:58 pm on May 11th, 2009 by Scott

Nice but stupid

Posted at 12:19 am on May 12th, 2009 by Aamer

fdsz

Posted at 12:30 am on May 12th, 2009 by cristinel

This is neat, next we need cording keyboard gloves

Posted at 1:29 am on May 12th, 2009 by The File Clerk

It’d be a lot cooler if they had finished the job.

Posted at 3:49 am on May 12th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

@Capital C

sorry, i meant left when i said right and vice versa.

Posted at 5:01 am on May 12th, 2009 by Peter

It seems more of a stretch to me to hit y with my right index finger. For some reason it seems totally easier to hit it with the left, so I have always done it.

Posted at 7:31 am on May 12th, 2009 by BAF

So how do you share the keyboard ? .. Or do you ?

Posted at 8:29 am on May 12th, 2009 by andrei

What’s next?

A touch pad that’s positioned over your naughty bits ?

Posted at 10:03 am on May 12th, 2009 by Patrick

Can you wash them?

Posted at 10:32 am on May 12th, 2009 by Alex

LMAO Classic!!!

Posted at 11:14 am on May 12th, 2009 by mooola

Хорошо что еще кто-то делает оригинальные сайты. Спасибо за информацию, очень интересно.

Posted at 12:20 pm on May 12th, 2009 by exparyday

I think the best way to connect the two halves, would be to use conductive thread, and make circuit board patterns between the two, you could make straight runs but the circuit board pattern would add geek points.

Posted at 12:52 pm on May 12th, 2009 by Flood_of_SYNs

this is just sweet.

i just wonder how well the keys press in, since flexi-boards tend to be awkward at times. (at least the ones that i have tried)

as for connecting the 2 sides, wouldn’t it have just been simple enough to connect wires to the “boards” on each end?
just line it across the insides of the cloth in a cable-tie of some sort. (maybe even make one from the same material as the pants, extra points)
you could probably even loop it when it reaches the middle so that it has extra length to stretch… just make sure it stays away from the little man downstairs, don’t want to choke the poor guy.

Posted at 2:41 pm on May 12th, 2009 by hunnter

Интересный блог, побольше бы таких

Posted at 8:33 pm on May 12th, 2009 by DogToigneeTom

man! nevermind the y key id rather use my left hand then not have these at all!

but im still a littly curious about how you wash them aand keep the linking components(whatever they may be) from detaching or getting watter damaged..

I WOULD PAY if you could make theses Blutooth compatable with a phone or pc… just come in … take a sit, and start typing… wait can you type wile walking? lol

Posted at 9:42 pm on Jun 19th, 2009 by vashSin

lol cool but what if u get electrocuted some how.. that thing will become sausage..lol

Posted at 7:40 am on Jun 22nd, 2009 by Eagle

just need a joystick beside it lol… u know

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Posted at 1:57 pm on Jul 27th, 2009 by mark

This is really cool. I’d say we put the monitor on the pants as well? In this way, we’ll then have a complete set to play tetris in. -Joe

Posted at 3:43 pm on Sep 29th, 2009 by Joe

those pants are really cool… I bet that if they cold be mass produced or marketed they could maybe have a trend of their own with nerds haha :)

Posted at 6:11 pm on Oct 7th, 2009 by Andrew

Those are awesome. The craftsmanship is very impressive.

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