Re:One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard
by billions on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @12:09PM
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A truly ergonomic keyboard, in my mind, would be one on which the palms are facing each other like holding a tree trunk. My hands were not meant to be lay flat on a surface. Also, smartphones should have physical keyboards on the the back- blindly operable.
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Kinesis has an accessory[1] for their Freestyle keyboard that does just this.
[1]: https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-ascent-accessor...
Re:One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard
by nicwest on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @12:34PM
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With the Ergodox they call this tenting (not sure if that's a technical term), example:
Re:One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard
by jarpineh on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:44PM
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I got magnetic tape from Ikea, couple of old bookends and build my own with Kinesis Freestyle. Magnetic tape on keyboards and bookends keeps them together, yet easily separable if need be. And believe me, learning to type when you can't even see where your hand are in regards to home row is suprisingly hard.
Re:One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard
by anonymfus on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @01:11PM
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> Also, smartphones should have physical keyboards on the the back- blindly operable.
Octodon (http://octodon.mobi/ ) claims that their repositionable joysticks for phones' backs are even better for the text input than ergonomic keyboards.