"Sounds radical, doesn't it? The Touch Bar was such a waste of space on the MacBook Pro when it was first introduced exactly a decade ago in 2016. It shipped with a lot of potential but barely any real-world use, and Apple even considered swapping it out for a slot that housed the Apple Pencil back in 2021. While that feature never really came to pass, something else happened in 2021 that blew everyone's minds - OpenAI's Dall-E."
"For a lot of people, this was the first time you could just 'tell' an AI to make an image for you and it would. It was the birth of generative AI, and only a year later, OpenAI would break the internet with ChatGPT. This is also around the time that Apple quietly killed the Touch Bar, but here's my opinion... bring it back. Maybe not on the MacBook, but the Touch Bar definitely deserves a place on any independent wireless keyboard."
"Designers: Eslam Mohammed & Ahmed Yassen Mohammed and Yassen's LUMO x700 keyboard comes with a few tricks up its sleeve. Sure, it sports a sleek, metal-forward Magic Keyboard-inspired design, but the thing also packs an end-to-end Touch Bar that's about as tall as your standard key, making it a lot more usable than the actual Touch Bar, which was just as slim as the function key row."
The Touch Bar launched on MacBook Pro in 2016 but saw limited real-world adoption and was quietly discontinued around 2021. Breakthroughs in generative AI—Dall‑E in 2021 and ChatGPT a year later—shifted expectations toward conversational and agent-driven interfaces. An independent wireless keyboard offers an appropriate home for a larger, more usable Touch Bar that can host AI agents, shortcuts, widgets, toolbars, and media controls. The LUMO x700 concept by Eslam Mohammed and Ahmed Yassen pairs an end-to-end Touch Bar sized like a standard key with a metal Magic Keyboard–style chassis and a snap-on music player module to broaden keyboard utility.
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