A Japanese company, apparently to cater to the young people who spend their days typing messages on their cellphone and don't know how to use a plain qwerty keyboard properly, has created a keyboard that I can only define as a "thumb keyboard". Yes, really. Here is the spec sheet, if you speak Japanese. Which I don't. From what I can understand, it comes in four pretty colors (black, white, blue and pink), connects to the computer via an USB port, and has a small stub on it that acts as a mouse/trackball (like the stub you find on some laptops, you know? I don't know the technical name, if it even has one). O tempora, o mores.
(Via La Repubblica. Newspaper it may be, and almost always months behind in technology "news", but for once it pointed something out to me that I hadn't yet seen.)