concept

Mono

A keyboard that changes with your focus.

Prototype demo

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Spark

Sora prototyped adaptive switches after watching writers disable every toolbar they owned.

Friction

Software keeps multiplying shortcuts.
Mono asks whether the object under your hands should get quieter as the work gets deeper.

Bet

A keyboard that changes with your focus.

Build

Hall-effect switches, a low e-ink legend strip, and local profiles.

No account.

No marketplace of keycaps-as-content.

Maker

Founder, human-computer interaction · Tokyo

Sora Kim

Rebuilding the keyboard as a physical interface, not a plastic slab.

Proof

Don’t tell us it’s real. Show us.

SEP 2026 — Switch feel study completed with 12 writers

JUN 2026 — Legend-strip readability passed desk tests

MAR 2026 — First aluminum chassis milled

Pull

3.2K

people on NEXTMADE want this

+54% this week

Would you actually want one?

Next step not confirmed.

Source

Original project

Originally created by Sora Kim. This page is an independent NEXTMADE editorial interpretation.