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OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

Designed with Work Louder, the kbd-1.0-codex-micro brings your agent workspace into reach. Keep active chats close, spot what every agent is doing through live RGB feedback, and map your most-used Codex actions to tactile controls built for the way you actually ship.

$230 sounds steep until you count how many hours a day some of us now spend talking to Codex instead of typing into an editor. People buy dedicated hardware for the tools they use constantly, and this one’s built specifically for a habit that’s still forming. I think it sells better than the price tag suggests it should.

openai.com
Codex Micro | Supply Co. x Work Louder

Designed with Work Louder, the kbd-1.0-codex-micro brings your agent workspace into reach. Keep active chats close, spot what every agent is doing through live RGB feedback, and map your most-used Codex actions to tactile controls built for the way you actually ship.

AIHardwareProduct Design
Observation·

Is GPT-Live the iPhone multitouch moment?

New interfaces show up before the products that need them. The mouse came before the Mac. The click wheel came before the iPod. Multitouch came before the iPhone.

OpenAI shipped GPT-Live last week, a voice model that listens and talks at the same time instead of taking turns. Every voice assistant before this has felt like a walkie-talkie: you talk, then you wait, then it talks back. This one doesn’t. It’s more natural, like how humans actually speak. Typing on a screen never needed that fix. A device with no screen does, and OpenAI bought Jony Ive’s hardware studio, io, last year without saying much beyond “a device”.

Full-duplex voice feels like the next big interface unlock. Whatever io ships will be the first product built for it.

AIHardwareProduct Design
June 2026
January 2014
Echo·

Google’s Nest acquisition has very little to do with selling thermostats and smoke detectors in particular. Instead, it’s about Google having the ability to do consumer hardware right, in general.

— John Gruber
daringfireball.net
On Google’s Acquisition of Nest

Google’s Nest acquisition has very little to do with selling thermostats and smoke detectors in particular. Instead, it’s about Google having the ability to do consumer hardware right, in general.

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