For quite some time I've been wanting to get a Kinesis keyboard. There is a new version, the Kinesis 360 which looks like a good evolution of the original Kinesis contoured keyboard. There is a Bluetooth and a wired version, it has all the remapping and customization options you would expect, but is also very expensive.
Before that, there was the Kinesis Advantage 1 and 2 versions in black and gray with blue accents. And before that there as the Kinesis Essential.
This beautiful beige monstrosity shares it's form with the newer Advantage and provides the same comfort. The difference is mostly in the controller which doesn't allow for much modification and is PS/2 only.
It is big and bulky and the retro colorscheme has almost something vaporwavy about it. I'm sure it's not everyone's piece of cake, but I love the retro-look.
I bought it pretty cheap as shown in the image above. It needs cleaning desperately, the previous owner seems to have had a white cat. Or a white beard. Whatever it was, the hairs in it have to go.
My original plan was to handwire a microcontroller into it to be able to flash it with QMK, but then I came across pill'z mod. It is a custom PCB that replaces the original controller and allows flashing ZMK on it, an open-source keyboard firmware which provides Bluetooth support, a remapping tool and about every possible functionality you could ever want from a keyboard.
The PCBs arrived today, now I'm waiting for a few other components. This board will become a USB-C and Bluetooth beast and possibly my new daily driver.
P.S. I also got this strange trackpad/mouse included. It works but is so terrible it makes you laugh, thinking this was ever a viable option.