Podcast about ergonomic keyboards, mice and tech news! Jan 4th, 2010 (Video)
(1) orbiTouch Keyless Ergonomic Keyboard
(2) Very expensive keyboard, and I don’t really understand who would be willing to purchase this product. I would love our listeners opinion
(3) Now, this really interests me. This company states that they have a convertible keyboard. Check this out
(4) This keyboard got my attention right away. I have seen this a few years ago, and it looks like datahand has refined this kind of technology. I would consider purchasing this keyboard if the price was right. See the You Tube video on this product here.
(5) This is the reason that I have put this show together. There is a growing number of ergonomic products out in the workplace, here is an interesting mouse from a company called ‘Orthomouse’
(6) This is a really neat little product that changes the way you can use your mouse. It’s called ‘The Ergonomic Touchpad’ I can see the value of this product for a wide variety of situations and environments
(7) Here are some reviews on the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. This is a run of the mill starter keyboard that almost anyone should be able to buy and use right away.
(8) Because I live in Canada, I stumbled upon this fantastic company that specializes in ergonomic equipment. They have some very unusual and helpful products that got my vote right away. Take a look at the entire page, there’s some really good stuff in here.
(9) This made me almost fall off of my chair. The keyboard concept looked OK, it wasn’t particularly ergonomic, but as I was scanning down the page and saw the price, I was astounded. Please tell me that this keyboard, although, highly specialized in not worth 2000 dollars American. I tried looking for a decimal place on the price, but didn’t find it, so, I can only assume that this keyboard does indeed sell for two thousand dollars US. Take a look
(10) I can see this product gaining popularity with more and more folks who do mobile computing. It is a concept fabric based keyboard. Very interesting.
11) I love cutting edge gadgets. Here is a keyboard called the ‘Optimus Tactus Concept Keyboard’ that doesn’t have any key, and it all touch screen based
Based on 18 years of experience, I think the DataHand keyboard is worth much more than it costs, and in my opinion all the other options are a net negative. I would not want them if you gave them to me for free and paid me thousands of dollars to use them.
Some people want to stick with the antique keyboard paradigm out of cultural habit, but they should not—if they were smart. (The Orbitouch can be valuable for people with certain disabilities, as you noted, but I am not among those.)
Full disclosure: I am a DataHand shareholder, but I am proud of that, because I believe in investing in products I think are offering something important. In addition, I used the product for almost a decade, before I said anything about my experience; I allowed that much time to be sure the product was as valuable as I thought it would be. Nonetheless, it is not without areas where improvements are still needed. For example, its mouse functionality is not as good as it should be, so I supplement it with either a trackpad or a trackball. Other improvements are needed, but for alphanumeric entry the DataHand keyboard is the best there is, especially for people who need to do a large amount of continuous typing every day. Yet, I would not ask people to take my word for anything; people should only to take my view as one person’s opinion to be checked out. There can be reasons why the DataHand keyboard can wrong for some people. Hand size can be an issue for example; people with very large, very small, or unusually shaped hands may not find it right. The keyboard should not be bought on an impulse; it should be studied thoroughly first by reading everything on the company web site as well as everything found through an Internet search. Even then, people will not understand everything, but they will understand enough to get started and enough to know why changing keyboards might be worth the trouble. They will begin to understand what is wrong with the established alternatives—and why.