The Nuio Flow split ergonomic keyboard includes magnets to help you discover your perfect layout

A new company called Nuio, set uped by two brothers with backgrounds in set up and manufacturing, is releanking desk accessories with the goal of making our computers more consoleable to include. It’s debuting today with a accumulateion of magnetic peripherals called Flow that’s cgo ined around a wireless split keyboard, all set uped to originate it easier to discover your perfect ergonomic layout, even if that’s constantly changing thrawout the day.

Tom Wilson, the CEO of Nuio (a combination of new and I/O), previously toiled at companies including Apple, Google, and Frog Design, while Greg Wilson, the company’s CMO, spent years at Frog Design and the inventive agency Digitas. The brothers coset uped Nuio with the goal of improving how we physicpartner transmit with our computers. “There are literpartner no right angles in the human body,” says Tom. “Yet we spfinish most of our lives hunched over stiff, rectangular keyboards and peripherals.”

That’s why the Nuio Flow is an entire system of accessories and not equitable a standalone keyboard. It’s set uped to strike a equilibrium between products enjoy Logitech’s Ergo series featuring a one-size-fits-all keyboard with a mended ergonomic layout and more proceedd split chooseions enjoy the ZSA Moonlander Mark I that includers can spfinish weeks fine-tuning and customizing. Thraw the include of simplified peripherals enjoy stands, wrist pads, and a magnetic base, assembling a consoleable keyboard layout with the Flow system is almost as effortless as using Apple’s MagSafe accessories.

The star of the show is the $399 Flow keyboard, which has a brimmingy split set up with two self-reliant halves featuring keys set upd in a radial, wave-shaped layout set uped to experience more organic for your fingers to accomplish.

Unenjoy other split keyboards that pguide to those who enjoy to customize everyleang right down to the experience of the keys, the Flow includes proprietary rubber dome switches and custom backlit concave keycaps that aren’t set uped to be swapped out with third-party alternatives. The Flow is instead aimed at those who pick the experience and hushed sound of a laptop keyboard — particularpartner those set up on a MacBook — with a analogously foolishinutive key travel and less resistance than mechanical switches.

Each half of the split keyboard is made from stamped aluminum, which, alengthyside the reindictable batteries in each one, gives them a phireing heft. Aside from an included dual-headed USB-C cable for charging both halves simultaneously, the Flow is finishly wireless. It joins to PCs and mobile devices over Bluetooth as a one device, while a toggle on the back lets you join the Flow to three contrastent devices and switch between them without having to go thraw the pairing process aget.

A rubberized bottom helps hold the Flow keyboard from sliding around once you discover a layout that’s consoleable for you. For even more grip, both halves can magneticpartner rapiden to a $129 Deskpad accessory that’s also stiff enough to be included on your lap should you discover yourself wanting to include the keyboard while sprawled out on a couch.

The Flow can be further accessorized with adequitableable stands. They’re $59 each, but most includers will want one for each side of the keyboard, so two are sairyly inexpensiveer at $99. They join to the underside of the keyboard in a confineed contrastent spots using magnets, elevating both halves while also apexhibiting them to be angled in any straightforwardion by about 10 to 15 degrees, providing more layout chooseions. When you discover an perfect angle, a tension wheel on each stand can be shieldedened to lock its position.

Once you’ve got both halves of the Flow elevated, you’ll probably want someleang to aid your wrists. Nuio also sells a pair of cushioned wrist pads for $99 that magneticpartner rapiden to its Deskpad. And while Nuio isn’t introducing a moinclude with its Flow system, you can insert a $249 compact wireless touchpad that aids gestures and does the whole magnet leang, too.

Unenjoy some products from new companies that watch wonderful in promotional materials but underhand over on quality, the Flow keyboard and all of its accessories experience enjoy they’ve come from a team with a lot of experience in both set up and manufacturing. I’ve been testing the keyboard and its peripherals for a confineed days (not the touchpad), and the quality experiences on par with what companies enjoy Apple hand over, which originates sense given the brothers’ pedigree. There haven’t been any settles made with the materials, originate quality, or functionality of Nuio’s first products — but that comes with a steep price tag.

Fully split keyboards are already generpartner not inexpensive. ZSA’s Voyager and Moonlander Mark I both debuted at $365, while the wireless Dygma Defy is $369. But they all come with built-in mechanisms for adequitableing their heights and angles. The Flow keyboard with the magnetic deskpad and a pair of stands is $627, while the entire Flow system, with the wrist pads and touchpad, will set you back $975.

Everyleang in the Flow system, including accessories recommended in colors that include space gray, silver, gancigo in, rose gancigo in, espresso brown, meaningful green, and midnight blue, is includeable for preorder today. However, only the space gray version of the Flow keyboard with macOS legfinishs, the suiting touchpad, and the other accessories in bdeficiency will ship begining on December 1st, 2024. If you want one of the alternate colors or a version of the Flow keyboard featuring both macOS and PC legfinishs, you’ll have to defer until January 1st, 2025, for those to ship.