If you’re willing to trust a company by the name of CompuExpert with your Mac peripheral needs, the Wow-Keys dock is a pretty nifty idea: an iPhone dock embedded right into a working keyboard. Just by loading up the Wow-Keys app, you can use the docked iPhone as a num pad or function keys to your desktop Mac, while keeping your media files synced and your iPhone fully charged.
The only drawback? Sort of expensive at $99.99, sort of ugly with that Windows key and sort of unavailable for sale until May 24th.
[via Redmond Pie]
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8 responses to “Wow-Keys Marries Your Keyboard’s Num Pad With An iPhone Dock”
If it doesn’t function also as a trackpad then it’s kind of stupid.
I guess this is aimed to windows users who happen to have an iPod. For mac users this looks ugly as s***, but windows users are probably used to the lack of design in products… I say meh.
If you’re using it with a Mac, there are free apps available to use your iPhone as a trackpad. You’d just have to use separate apps if you go from using a trackpad to the number pad.
I need a numpad, so this would be useless to me. I’d rather have my iPhone propped up in a dock sitting on my desk.