Klingon Keyboards

Cherry like to be innovative and produce unusual devices from time to time. The Klingon keyboard is no exception.

Although based around a ’standard’, tried and tested product - the G83-6105LPQGB-2 (of which the 25 millionth product rolled off the production line in 2006) - the layout is it’s unusual part. The idea was born in the Cherry office here in the UK and started off as a simple marketing exercise. Once a press release was issued on the Internet, interest started to come in for such an unusal product and because forward orders were received, the product had to be put into production. The G83-6105LPNKL-2 is now a standard part within the Cherry product range.

The keyboard carries letters from the Klingon alphabet, sourced from the Internet and there is a Windows font to accompany it. This allows Klingon enthusiasts and those who are fluent in the language, to easily type e-mails and/or IM’s to their fellow Klingon fans. As with any keyboard, the Klingon keyboard can operate as a standard UK layout version when connected to a PC.

Press releases for this product caused quite a stir when a ‘fake quote’ was published, reportedly from a Klingon official - the complaint was raised by the gentleman who bears this name as part of an official Klingon site, but this seems to have done the keyboard’s popularity little harm. Orders and enquiries are still coming in….

Rumours of Romulan, Vulcan and other variants are not without substance - though time will tell…..!