I can’t tell you how excited I am that Jesse and Kaia’s kickstarter launched yesterday, and met their funding goal in the first 12 hours. A couple of years ago I caught up with Jesse at reunion and heard about the beginnings of this project. He was experimenting with building his own keyboard, and wasn’t really sure where the project was headed. He commented that it was interesting that every other part of Doug Engelbart’s Mother of all Demos has come to be a normal part of our technology lanscape, except his chorded keyboard. Maybe we were missing something. Maybe there were good ideas about keyboards that we just left on the drawing table.

Over the last couple of years he and Kaia went down this journey to build a better keyboard. Moving out to the west coast, doing a 4 month stint at a hardware incubator, many trips to Shenzen. All the interim steps have been amazing to watch. And the thing they created at the end of the day just looks outstanding.

They are now running a Kickstarter to fund the production of their first consumer unit, the Model 01. It just looks amazing. If you spend 8 hours a day at a computer, you owe it to yourself to take a look.