A New Rumor Suggests These Customizable Keyboards Are Coming to the MacBook

Update: It turns out the E Ink keyboard rumors might be true! The Wall Street Journal reports that this E Ink keyboard will arrive on the 2018 MacBooks. The keyboards "will be able to display any alphabet, along with an unlimited number of special commands and emoji," a source told the The Wall Street Journal. And despite the original rumors, it appears that Tim Cook did meet with Sonder, the company behind the E Ink keyboard, last week. You can read our original story and see the E Ink keyboard in action ahead.

Original story: A new rumor that suggested an E Ink keyboard was coming to the MacBook in a few years is most likely not true. Though we can keep dreaming of a day a keyboard this cool will exist on our computers, the company behind the product dispelled the rumors.

The rumor began when The Guardian reported that Apple was considering buying the startup Sonder, which designed and created a keyboard that's customizable and uses E Ink (the same technology you see in Kindles). Many outlets reported the news and even confirmed with Sonder to verify the news. However, someone from the company wrote in a Reddit post on Oct. 13 that the company never met with Tim Cook.

While we're a bit bummed that this technology might not be coming to the MacBook, it's worth checking out to see what the hype was all about. You can see the keyboard in action below.

However, the new MacBook Pros are expected to arrive later this month and might come with a cool OLED touchscreen display keyboard. And who knows, we could see this E Ink keyboard on the MacBook someday.