Cool! When they get a helluva lot cheaper, I'll buy one.

I can't fucking imagine how that works.

bollox to it! 20% more efficient? your dipstick manager buys it for you as yet another hare-brained cost saving method, you don't have a clue how to use it 'cause you're normal and you end up sacked for being 'inefficient' as an excuse to cover up the barmy asking price!

Boring, mis-key prone keyboards rule

I used to hate when I'd go on-site to do repairs or training or whatever and someone had one of those old Microsoft ergonomic keyboards. Hell, I can barely type as it is (I'm not a "classically trained" typist ... more like advanced hunt and peck) and those things confused the ever-living hell out of me. I think this thing would make my head asplode.

boo to that. i had a keyboard for a little while that was split down the middle and angled with a blank triangle section in the middle. it felt like a dream on the wrists and elbows, because it made the positioning more like eating or drawing.

Welcome to thirty years ago.

If you really want to type faster, learn Dvorak.

And this from someone who can type 100 wpm on a conventional keyboard.

I do really like keyboards with Media buttons, like forward, back, and especially volume. Opening up my browser is nice, too. But on my laptop, on either side of the Up key are Forward and Back buttons for my browser, and they can really fuck me up, especially when using forums or web based e-mail.

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Listen to Clov's first post.

The QWERTY keyboard - the configuration we all use - was deliberately set up as it is to intentionally slow you down. That's because the first typewriters were mechanical beasts that would get jammed up if you typed too fast. (Yes, I'm old enough to have started on those freakin' things when I was a young teen). Why in gawd's name we continue to use QWERTY keyboards is beyond me. The answer, supposedly, is the DVORAK keyboard. As explained at Wikipedia, Dvorak studied letter frequencies and the physiology of the hand and created the layout to adhere to these principles.

So if someone is going to invent a more ergonomic keyboard, they should start with not just a new physical layout, but with a new configuration -like DVORAK - that allows you to type faster because it's a more intuitive layout of the alphabet.

Of course, if we did things logically, we'd be on the metric system and rap artists would have to get jobs and the inventor of "casual day" would be doing 15 to 20 at Leavenworth, so what do I know?

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Isn't this the same thing, yet cheaper? A lot cheaper?

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Hmmm...I used a keyboard similar to this about 10 years ago - it was called the Kinesis Keyboard and it launched commercially in 1992. I think this is a new, very expensive update to a relatively old concept (as far as keyboard design is concerned). Just my $0.02, but i would stick to Vestril's suggestion at $175.