iKeyboard Touch-type on your iPad keyboard For iPad 1, iPad 2, and iPad 3-black

I received this items today with much anticipation, having seen it on the internet. Like my iPad, it is simple to use, yet elegant in design. No usb this, battery that, no wires, nothing. It is just an ingenious good idea that plugs a huge hole in an obvious Apple assumption-that people will just love to type on glass. People who have suction cups on their fingers will not need this; only people who hate typing on glass. I like the feel it gives me and I love the ease in which it can be removed. Hey, guess what? No marks on the iPad! What black art has engendered such a contraption? Thank you, oh wizard, from the bottom on my fingertips to the summit of my cerebral cortex!

I love this keyboard. I compose long essays using the "Pages" app on my iPad 2 and this keyboard increases my speed and accuracy. For the first time, I'm able to touch-type on an iPad. Plus, it adds no weight to the iPad, unlike my bluetooth keyboard, which makes my back pack as heavy as if I was carrying a laptop.

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It has been a joy to get a 'real' keyboard I can feel, but still experience the mobility of the iPad. I can touch type again knowing that the F and J keys are right under my index fingers!

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I had read about this startup company raising unbelievable funds to produce this incredibly cool keyboard that attaches to the iPad, so that when its touch keyboard was on the screen, this would overlay it and you could now touch-type, avoiding all the errors a non-tactile screen keyboard inevitably produces.

I ordered it immediately as soon as it became available. I thought it would be perfect, and the $35 price, although hefty for a thin piece of plastic, seemed reasonable to avoid the mistakes and not have to lug around a bluetooth keyboard. In theory, it was great.

In reality, it was AWFUL! It did overlay the iPad's keyboard perfectly, but only when in landscape mode. Even that was okay. It did cause distortion and a moire effect when looking at the screen keys through the domed thin clear plastic keys on the overlay. Very distracting; but even that was okay. What was NOT okay, and what I didn't expect, was that it was much, much MUCH more difficult to type while pushing down on the domed plastic see-through "keys". Even if typing on the iPad's virtual keyboard does cause errors, everyone who has used it knows it is light-touch effortless. Suddenly, you have to push these plastic domed "keys" down very hard--no touch will do--only one, sometimes two good pushes of the "keys". And, it is not intuitive for touch-typists. I am a very fast touch-typist, and the awkward plastic partitions between the "keys" felt very peculiar and uncomfortable. It was nothing I felt I could, nor wanted to, get used to.

The idea of adding tactility to the iPad keyboard was a fascinating idea, and I can still see a possibility for it, if it is made of something else. The hard plastic frame that goes around the entire keyboard and between each key is bulky and awkward, and definitely uncomfortable to use. The crinkly clear plastic that forms the see-through key covers is just that, crinkly, distortive plastic, and is in no way intuitive or even easily touch responsive to the screen keyboard. The iPad loses all of its delicate touch, and you end up mashing crinkly plastic domes. It took me easily 10 times as long to complete an email; I had to type absolutely everything twice.

I am returning it, and thinking of the tried and true adage about never buying the first generation of anything. That is certainly true with this. They should go to more of a static cling overlay (NO PLASTIC) which, perhaps has double layered but solid "keys" that afford a tactile experience, can see through, is easily removed, but works with the same soft touch we have come to expect with the iPad. This has the kernel of a great idea; it is just not ready for prime time or cost.

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It takes some time to get used to typing on this and I cannot confess to have entirely mastered it, but it certainly enables you to move far closer to touch typing than you would have thought with the iPad. It is light, not adding anything to the iPad's weight or size and so can be easily brought with you without thinking, its shortcomings are those of the iPad, in that the screen is barely big enough to take a keyboard. Overall very happy with this and have recommended it to a number of others.