The ultimate keyboard? [Archive]

bystander

11-Jun-2002, 16:11

SafeType (http://www.safetype.com/)

http://www.safetype.com/images/keyborad2.gif

I wonder how long it would take someone to adjust to using it.

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16-Jul-2002, 09:19

SafeType (http://www.safetype.com/)

http://www.safetype.com/images/keyborad2.gif

I wonder how long it would take someone to adjust to using it.

like OMG - hahahaha - funny stuff

phynicle

16-Jul-2002, 16:18

hey iseen that in my IPt text book
looks awkward

Nite_Hawk

17-Jul-2002, 00:36

Heh,

Laugh as you may, but I actually bought one of these for my boss at work! Typing on it is pretty odd, but actually not all that hard to get used to if you are already fairly good on a regular keyboard. I felt a bit of wrist strain when using it because of the spacing of some of the keys (it's got larger keys than my logitech keyboard). Overall though, it was fairly impressive how nice it felt to have my wrists rotated 90 degrees. It felt a lot more natural, though still pretty wierd.

My Boss complains a lot about upper shoulder muscle aches, which is the primary reason we ended up buying it (about $400!). She seemed to really like it for about a month or two, but lately I've seen her using her regular keyboard (probably because her computer is a Mac and we had to use a USB->PS/2 adapter to get it to hook up right). Really, between all the crappy voice recognition software and other hacks we tried, this one seems to have done the most from what I can see.

Nite_Hawk