Peripherals
Peripherals are judged by hand. Switch feel, wobble, and the sound a key makes at the bottom of its travel decide whether a candidate goes further.
Hardware · HW·04
Peripherals
Keyboards, pointing devices and desk hardware, chosen on switch feel and build tolerance.
Keyboards, pointing devices and the small hardware a desk accumulates. Switch feel and build tolerance decide what enters the line; nothing is taken on for its specification sheet alone.
- Entry
- HW·04
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- Line open
- In the line
- Keyboards · Mice and trackpads · Desk accessories
- Judged on
- Switch feel, build tolerance
How it is run
Peripherals are judged by hand. Switch feel, wobble, and the sound a key makes at the bottom of its travel decide whether a candidate goes further.
- Brief — Switch type, layout and travel are specified up front.
- Assessment — Candidates are judged by hand, on feel and tolerance.
- Quality control — Key consistency and stabiliser rattle are sampled per batch.
HW·04 · Peripherals
Drawing sheet · not to scale
Concept · runs with HOB AI
One key instead of a shortcut.
Every line is drawn around the same assistant. It is asked for out loud, it resolves what it can on the device in front of you, and it answers with the thing rather than a conversation about the thing.
HOB AI · on device
- Ask
- One key, spoken to
- Understand
- Intent resolved before the app sees it
- Act
- Text, macro or command entered
- Ask — One key, spoken to, in place of a shortcut you have to remember.
- Understand — Intent is resolved before the application sees it, on the hardware in front of you.
- Act — Text, a macro or a command is entered exactly as though it had been typed.
A concept drawing, not a shipping specification. The assistant is HOB AI and the device it was written for is HB·001.
Line manual
How HW·04 is specified, ordered and checked.
The standing orders for this line, in six pages. Drag a page across, or use the arrows.
HW·04
Rendered, not photographed. No unit of this line has been manufactured under the mark, so nothing here is a picture of a finished product.
Finish palette · drawn intent, not a supplier sample
Obsidian anodise#0B0B0C
Graphite anodise#17181A
Graphite light#202225
Brass#B98A3E
Brass lit#D7A954
Ivory#F4F3EF
Brief
Switch type, layout and travel are specified up front.
- Switch type
- Specified up front
- Layout
- Specified up front
- Travel
- Specified up front
Assessment
Candidates are judged by hand, on feel and tolerance.
- By hand
- Judged in use, not on a specification sheet
- Feel
- Switch feel decides entry
- Tolerance
- Build tolerance decides entry
Quality control
Key consistency and stabiliser rattle are sampled per batch.
- Key consistency
- Sampled per batch
- Stabiliser rattle
- Sampled per batch
Line open
- Entry
- HW·04
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- Line open
- In the line
- Keyboards · Mice and trackpads · Desk accessories
- Judged on
- Switch feel, build tolerance
Everything above describes how the line is run. It does not describe a product you can hold.
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