Now shipping: The Asus Eee Keyboard

Well, it’s finally here: the Eee Keyboard, the device that caught the world’s (the geeky part of the world, anyway) imagination when it was first unveiled last year is now selling on Amazon. Unfortunately, they weren’t kidding when it was first revealed that it was going to cost $600, because evidently, that’s exactly how much you’re going to have to part with for this thing. Especially now that we have the option of blowing a little less for an iPad or a new netbook that’s way better than an oversized (albeit awesome-looking) keyboard that runs on a slightly outdated spec (Atom N270, 1GB memory, Windows XP Home). Now, whether or not this is something we’ll be regularly seeing being plopped down at the café remains to be seen, but it could be interesting to see if it can “grind” like the iPad. It’s shaped just about right.