Valve Job Posting Confirms Hardware Plans 219
redletterdave writes "Valve is reportedly interested in building hardware. The Bellevue, Wash.-based software developer added a job posting to its site on Tuesday morning for an industrial designer. We're frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space though, so we're jumping in,' the posting said. 'Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years. There's a real void in the marketplace, and opportunities to create compelling user experiences are being overlooked.'"
And this is news?! (Score:4, Informative)
Come on. Jeri Ellsworth [wikipedia.org] is working for them. I doubt she's writing PC games, duh. There was a hackaday article [hackaday.com] about that a quarter ago. I don't follow this industry and even I've known about it for a while. Sigh.
Re:Design requirements (Score:5, Informative)
Or you could have something quite different, like this [disabledonline.com], or this [disabledonline.com], or this [artlebedev.com], or this [alphagrips.com] (what I'm actually using to type this message).
Please, don't put just "this" in every link. Let me FTFY...
Or you could have something quite different, like Ergodex DX1 [disabledonline.com], or Win Mini [disabledonline.com], or Optimus Maximus [artlebedev.com], or AlphaGrip iGrip [alphagrips.com] (what I'm actually using to type this message).
Better?