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Re:Qwerkywriter: Typewriter-Inspired Mechanical Keyboard by kybernetyk on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:04AM (#10225950)
Yeah, I certainly have seen similar keycaps before. No idea what's so novel about those particular caps that they need a patent.
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Re:Qwerkywriter: Typewriter-Inspired Mechanical Keyboard by userbinator on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:45AM (#10226109)
Plenty of prior art if you mean "round old-typewriter-style keycaps on a computer keyboard":

http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard-shtml/

A company also sells these (although they're much more expensive than the one in the article):

http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm

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