I'm sure you're asking yourselves, "Yeah, you say they're flexible keyboards, but just how flexible are they?" Well, someone much wiser than I said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are some pictures.
As you can see, these keyboards are plenty flexible! ;-)
So, what does all this flexibility get you? Well, it makes these keyboards far easier to carry around than your regular solid plastic keyboards. Because they can be cleaned with a mild soap and water solution (do NOT use Windex or any other solvent-based cleaner!), they make great portable keyboards. They are also very good for households with children, especially children that think nothing of pounding away on the keyboard right after eating a Hershey bar in midsummer!
Conclusion
There's no denying that the Thailand Display Flexible Keyboard is a useful product. That much should be easy for everyone to see. It can be literally rolled up and put into a pocket to take with you. It can have spills soaked up from its surface with a damp sponge or paper towel, which means the next time you spill a soda on your keyboard it won't be the end of gaming for the night. However, it is not a perfect keyboard, either, especially for the gamer. This is due to, ironically enough, the flexible design.
The keys need to be struck harder than most people are used to typing in order to have a keystroke register. In addition, the keys must also be struck near the center as well. These two things together wouldn't be that hard to overcome by themselves, but, there is one more flaw that just might be a deal-breaker. Both the Space and Enter keys have what I call 'dead zones'. There are places on those keys on both sizes of keyboard that you can hit as hard as you like while typing and it will not register a keystroke. This flaw would be a fairly easy fix, I think. All that is required is to put another sensor in each of the affected keys to remove the 'dead zone'.
One other thing that bothers me is the two blanks keys next to the space bars. You can't map these keys to anything because they have no sensors. They are basically place holders for some future revision of the keyboards. That would be fine on the Full Sized Keyboard, but the Mini Keyboard is missing the Home and End keys, which I use quite often in doing things like typing out reviews. If Thailand Display had used the blanks as Home and End keys on the Mini Keyboard, I would be using it right now, not the Saitek PC Gaming keyboard I reviewed several months ago.
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