Sounds almost like a (musical) synthesizer controller is what you need.
e.g. something like:
http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/BCF2000.aspx

secure but unclassified
I thought the term was "sensitive but unclassified"...

The lego version doesn't have knees. Do knees count as a breakthrough?!

sceptic is the English (as opposed to US) spelling of skeptic.

I took typing classes in high school.
Now I find though that I only type "properly" (all fingers) with my left hand. I only use one or two fingers on my right hand. I think the reason for this may be that I'm generally having to move my right hand around to grab the mouse, and so my R.H. strays away too often from the home position. (Even hitting "return" tends to move my hand out of position as well.)

(Maybe some people may have got a different idea on this from the subject...)

Maybe you really mean you *couldn't* agree more...

I think people knew about basic sanitation in 1918.
Also, we still don't have very good vaccines against flu.

Have you seen the price for replacement car keys these days? They can be hundreds of dollars...

Well, if it's well-documented, where is it documented?

You give no citations to support your hypothesis.
Sheer luck might perhaps be the case, but without research one might miss a genetic connection, which could then potentially enable either medical or lifestyle changes that could mimic the genetic differences.
As one example of a possible genetic link to some aspects of aging see e.g.
http://www.einstein.yu.edu/home/news.asp?id=454