content: Hall effect switches can have the same feel as a mechanical keyboard, because the keypress part is still mechanical (not membrane) and the only difference is that instead of two metal contacts sliding against each-other, you have the hall effect magnetic switch that has no moving parts/friction.  The interesting thing about the hall effect switch project is that they can be made at scale cheaply with today's technology.  It could very well make its way to laptop keyboards, because laptop keyboards are notoriously unreliable.