Electronic Materials Office Altar II Keyboard
The Altar II measures just 0.19 inches thick, thinner than Apple's own Magic Keyboard, yet every key underneath is a full mechanical switch rather than the scissor-style mechanism found on most low-profile boards. Electronic Materials Office pulled that off by turning the switch's tension spring on its side, letting it sit laterally instead of vertically so the whole assembly barely rises above the desk. A magnetically detachable M-Dial handles media controls, cycling through volume, playback, and track skipping depending on how many times you click it, and swaps out for a different shape whenever the mood strikes, including one you design and 3D print yourself. The typing experience gets backed by haptic feedback from a system EMO calls the Harmonic Synthesiser, while a dual-layer damping setup underneath keeps the whole thing quiet rather than clacky. An amber-red backlight, NiteLite, only kicks in when the room goes dark, tuned specifically not to disrupt sleep. The keyboard pairs with a companion Mac app for remapping keys and the dial, and the chassis is carved from one solid piece of aluminum, with at least half its plastic made from recycled material and packaged in nothing but paper and sugarcane pulp.
