Links International's bamboo PC keyboard

While we've seen a brief flurry of wooden peripherals appear on the market before, Links International are claiming a first with their bamboo keyboard, the Takechiyo. There is a ton of gumph on their site about the properties of bamboo (flexible, strong, won't warp, eaten by bears to kill their BO prior to hunting, etc.) that we won't bother you with; suffice it to say that what you're getting is a 104-key USB keyboard (+PS/2 adaptor) encased in some bamboo, that will set you back Y9,800 (about US$83) when it goes on sale in Japan on February 11.

For the trivia fans, Takechiyo (literally, bamboo + forever) was the childhood name of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.

[Press release (Links International) (Japanese)]

[Via Japan.internet.com (Japanese)]