We’ve featured a few capacitive keyboards here at Hackaday before, including this similar repair to a Compaq from the 1980s, and this look at a classic IBM terminal keyboard.

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They also support capacitive touch, which lets them detect different states including when your fingers are touching, tapping, and hovering over the keyboard.

Moreover, when this capacitive touch keyboard vanishes, the pane can be used as a digitizer, which you can write on with the digital stylus that comes with Yoga Book, even using real ink. A clever ...

With its capacitive touch keyboard that turns into a drawing tablet with the press of the button, the Yoga Book is absolutely the future of laptops and tablets and the blurred space in between.

It has a touchscreen all-in-one monitor running Windows 8, but that's about where the familiar part of the new Sprout by HP ends. Where your keyboard should go, HP has placed a capacitive touch mat.

This communication is a bit slower than the capacitive touch scanning, about one packet every 40 milliseconds, so one of these packets can contain several keyboard scans.

The keyboard accepts normal dome switch presses, pressure-sensitive input and capacitive touch-based gestures. Using the latter embodiment, Apple's keyboard is able to replace a traditional mouse ...

It looks like Microsoft will be offering Surface users who prefer full keyboards two different options. The Type Cover is a full tactile keyboard, unlike the previously-revealed Touch Cover ...