The Nuio Flow split ergonomic keyboard uses magnets to help you find your ideal layout

A caller institution called Nuio, founded by 2 brothers with backgrounds successful plan and manufacturing, is rethinking table accessories with the extremity of making our computers much comfy to use. It’s debuting contiguous with a postulation of magnetic peripherals called Flow that’s centered astir a wireless divided keyboard, each designed to marque it easier to find your cleanable ergonomic layout, adjacent if that’s perpetually changing passim the day.

Tom Wilson, the CEO of Nuio (a operation of caller and I/O), antecedently worked astatine companies including Apple, Google, and Frog Design, portion Greg Wilson, the company’s CMO, spent years astatine Frog Design and the originative bureau Digitas. The brothers cofounded Nuio with the extremity of improving however we physically interact with our computers. “There are virtually nary close angles successful the quality body,” says Tom. “Yet we walk astir of our lives hunched implicit rigid, rectangular keyboards and peripherals.”

That’s wherefore the Nuio Flow is an full strategy of accessories and not conscionable a standalone keyboard. It’s designed to onslaught a equilibrium betwixt products similar Logitech’s Ergo series featuring a one-size-fits-all keyboard with a fixed ergonomic layout and much precocious divided options similar the ZSA Moonlander Mark I that users tin walk weeks fine-tuning and customizing. Through the usage of simplified peripherals similar stands, wrist pads, and a magnetic base, assembling a comfy keyboard layout with the Flow strategy is astir arsenic casual arsenic utilizing Apple’s MagSafe accessories.

The prima of the amusement is the $399 Flow keyboard, which has a afloat divided plan with 2 autarkic halves featuring keys arranged successful a radial, wave-shaped layout designed to consciousness much earthy for your fingers to reach.

Unlike different divided keyboards that entreaty to those who similar to customize everything close down to the consciousness of the keys, the Flow uses proprietary rubber dome switches and customized backlit concave keycaps that aren’t designed to beryllium swapped retired with third-party alternatives. The Flow is alternatively targeted astatine those who similar the consciousness and quiescent dependable of a laptop keyboard — specifically those recovered connected a MacBook — with a likewise abbreviated cardinal question and little absorption than mechanical switches.

Each fractional of the divided keyboard is made from stamped aluminum, which, alongside the rechargeable batteries successful each one, gives them a satisfying heft. Aside from an included dual-headed USB-C cablegram for charging some halves simultaneously, the Flow is wholly wireless. It connects to PCs and mobile devices implicit Bluetooth arsenic a azygous device, portion a toggle connected the backmost lets you link the Flow to 3 antithetic devices and power betwixt them without having to spell done the pairing process again.

A rubberized bottommost helps support the Flow keyboard from sliding astir erstwhile you find a layout that’s comfy for you. For adjacent much grip, some halves tin magnetically connect to a $129 Deskpad accessory that’s besides rigid capable to beryllium utilized connected your thigh should you find yourself wanting to usage the keyboard portion sprawled retired connected a couch.

The Flow tin beryllium further accessorized with adjustable stands. They’re $59 each, but astir users volition privation 1 for each broadside of the keyboard, truthful 2 are somewhat cheaper astatine $99. They link to the underside of the keyboard successful a fewer antithetic spots utilizing magnets, elevating some halves portion besides allowing them to beryllium angled successful immoderate absorption by astir 10 to 15 degrees, providing much layout options. When you find an perfect angle, a hostility instrumentality connected each basal tin beryllium tightened to fastener its position.

Once you’ve got some halves of the Flow elevated, you’ll astir apt privation thing to enactment your wrists. Nuio besides sells a brace of cushioned wrist pads for $99 that magnetically connect to its Deskpad. And portion Nuio isn’t introducing a rodent with its Flow system, you tin adhd a $249 compact wireless touchpad that supports gestures and does the full magnet thing, too.

Unlike immoderate products from caller companies that look large successful promotional materials but underdeliver connected quality, the Flow keyboard and each of its accessories consciousness similar they’ve travel from a squad with a batch of acquisition successful some plan and manufacturing. I’ve been investigating the keyboard and its peripherals for a fewer days (not the touchpad), and the prime feels connected par with what companies similar Apple deliver, which makes consciousness fixed the brothers’ pedigree. There haven’t been immoderate compromises made with the materials, physique quality, oregon functionality of Nuio’s archetypal products — but that comes with a steep terms tag.

Fully divided keyboards are already mostly not cheap. ZSA’s Voyager and Moonlander Mark I some debuted astatine $365, portion the wireless Dygma Defy is $369. But they each travel with built-in mechanisms for adjusting their heights and angles. The Flow keyboard with the magnetic deskpad and a brace of stands is $627, portion the full Flow system, with the wrist pads and touchpad, volition acceptable you backmost $975.

Everything successful the Flow system, including accessories offered successful colors that see abstraction gray, silver, gold, roseate gold, espresso brown, heavy green, and midnight blue, is disposable for preorder today. However, lone the abstraction grey mentation of the Flow keyboard with macOS legends, the matching touchpad, and the different accessories successful achromatic volition vessel starting connected December 1st, 2024. If you privation 1 of the alternate colors oregon a mentation of the Flow keyboard featuring some macOS and PC legends, you’ll person to hold until January 1st, 2025, for those to ship.