This Keyboard With a Built-in 12-Inch Touchscreen Makes Good on Apple's Touch Bar Promises

The MacBook's Touch Bar is doomed to extinction like butterfly keyboards and charging docks. The small size of the feature prevented it from reaching its full potential. If you want to put a screen on a keyboard, you need to commit to the idea, like this mechanical keyboard with a 12.6-inch touch screen.

Brand names that are completely unknown are slowly taking over the listings of consumer electronics on Amazon. There isn't much debate as to the usefulness of this creation, but you can talk about it.

BoingBoing spotted a keyboard that looked like a laptop and a tablet, but it didn't contain a computer component. It isn't useful on it's own. When connected to a computer or a mobile device that is compatible with external displays and hardware accessories, it serves as both a small mechanical keyboard and a large color touch screen.

The screen on this keyboard serves as a secondary display for a laptop or desktop PC so users can move whatever they want onto it. This could be a use case for the Touch Bar, as it could allow for the ability to have a touchscreen for commonly used tools and functions.

Some of the suggested use cases for this accessory are actually useful. You can leave the larger screen for showing the talking heads of all the participants and use the keyboard to take notes on the video conference call. It could be used as a dedicated place to park your feed so it's visible at all times. We don't know how to care for your mental health.

The device has a keyboard that has 15 different lighting patterns and also has swappable key caps. It may be suitable for gaming as well.

There are some limits to the hardware. If you want to use the HDMI route for an older PC or laptop, you'll need to get a hub or cable accessory. It only works when this thing is connected to a Windows PC. Touch detection with a Mac is limited to one point.

The price of the keyboard is the biggest issue. You can find a better external display and mechanical keyboard for less than this. Is the added touch function worth the premium price? It is up to you to make that decision.