Did you (or I?) miss something here? In the 3rd paragraph it’s “revealed”:

In a story of “what’s old is new again”, the solution dates back to ancient keyboards with physical keys for Copy and Paste.

Neo seems like a cool layout, reminds me of “unexpected keyboard” for android, but I fail to see the relevance since it doesn’t have the copy/paste buttons (like the keyboard in the picture in the article) as far as I can see