Microsoft has brought out the newest range of conceptual keyboard meant for desktop users.

The Adaptive Keyboard comes with a LCD touch screen above the top row of keys. The firm states that the LCD touch screen is crafted in such a manner to reveal the vital shortcut icons and document previews, and thus can also be amended to display information as per the requirement of the software.

Hakon Strande, Microsoft program manager said, “We created a concept prototype in the Adaptive Keyboard that suggests that the display capabilities of high efficiency input devices such as keyboards and mice should be as dynamic and relevant to user context as the UI on the PC screen.”

The firm claims of releasing the concept keyboard in the recent Student Innovation Contest at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.