Whited-Out Apple Keyboard As Pretentious As You can Get?

By Nicole Martinelli (7:31 am, Jan. 28, 2009)

Here’s an Apple keyboard spray painted snowy, pure white — nothing to stop your eye but if your touch typing skills are still at high-school level, you’re in trouble.

Maker Essell says:

“The design snob in me isn’t particularly happy with Apple’s recent trend of using two colors (black and silver, white and silver) on their stuff.

So. Combine my pedantic taste for minimalism with nerdy touch typing abilities and a cheap can of white spraypaint, and you end up with my keyboard – possibly the most pretentious keyboard in existence.”

What do you think?

Via NotCot

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Nicole Martinelli was born in San Francisco and has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. Cultish tendencies and love for DIY increased while living on the Old Continent, where tech came late and cost more in Big Mac index terms. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. Since 1999, she's been tapping away at zoomata. You can also find her on Facebook, Linked in and Twitter.

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19 comments

    I don’t like it.

    INTERNETBUSINESSIDEA, on January 28th, 2009 at 7:48 am

    That’s pretty cool, but I don’t think these days that touch typing at high-school level is a bad thing.

    Nik, on January 28th, 2009 at 7:50 am

    Stupidest thing I saw in a while.

    stephane, on January 28th, 2009 at 10:00 am

    Hate it

    Matt, on January 28th, 2009 at 11:07 am

    At Last!!! A keyboard worthy of the highest level of Mac-User. Most out here at “The Alice” is white-washed similarly – it would fit right in. You mate are cutting edge – bewdy~:0)

    Chas, on January 28th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Nice, has a proper layout too.

    domi, on January 28th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Love it! How did you do it? Wont it wear of over time?

    Stian, on January 28th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    Awesome…should give these to those old fogies tip tapping with their index fingers. Maybe it’ll teach them to actually TYPE and not waste your time pecking away letter by letter!

    Crag, on January 28th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    I like it, and I agree with you about not liking Apple’s recent two-tone approach—I think the new unibody MacBooks would look a lot better if they did an anodized black version.

    Daniel, on January 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    I think it is ultimate cool, but that’s because I’m so pretentious I switched off the subtitles on the back of the seat in front of me and read off the subtitles from two seats forwards in Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera just so it would look like I understood the German.

    Alan, on January 28th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Alan: LOL!

    Nicole Martinelli, on January 28th, 2009 at 10:42 pm

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    Für Puristen: Schneeweiße Apple Tastatur - Gizmodo DE - Das Gadget Weblog, on January 29th, 2009 at 4:53 am

    I want white back, if for no other reason that it drives PC guys (they’r always guys för some reason;) nuts…

    The new silver/black ones look like HP’s………and that just won’t cut it by me.

    Maarten, on January 29th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    It’s not pretentious. Just blank.

    Torley, on January 30th, 2009 at 6:02 am

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    For purists: Snow White Apple keyboard | Gadgets and Gizmos, on January 30th, 2009 at 6:48 am

    They should make this, with the letters printed on in black with temporary ink that will wear off as you learn the keys.

    Don Marti, on January 30th, 2009 at 11:35 am

    Perfect! Now let me just set my keyboard layout to Dvorak…
    :-)

    Emily J, on January 30th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    Love it. Looks very futuristic, euro-cool.

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