Mechanical keyboards used to be a rarity, but now they're decidedly mainstream with most peripheral makers offering an assortment of clicky boards. However, most retail mechanical keyboards are aimed at gamers.

The Detroit-based company Astrohaus has been making its “distraction-free writing tools” under the Freewrite name for about a decade. So far, those have all been standalone, single-purpose devices meant simply for drafting text,

Enter the Freewrite Wordrunner, an upcoming wireless keyboard that's designed to help those of us who write for a living. The 88-key, tenkeyless Wordrunner has a raft of unique, writer-friendly features including a electromechanical "wordometer" that counts your words like your car's odometer counts miles (or km).

Astrohaus has cornered a very specific niche. The Michigan-based startup builds hardware for writers looking to eliminate distractions. It’s really tough finishing up that novel when Instagram exists,

I've had my eye on Astrohaus Freewrite products for a while. The company has made all kinds of keyboard-and-screen devices that are designed to eliminate distractions and allow you to get down to just writing.

Among the sea of announcements, we have a new mechanical keyboard that has an interesting design and some neat features. The Astrohaus Freewrite Wordrunner will be able to keep track of how many words you write.