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Comment Keyboard of the "Future" (Score 1) 482

Forget about where you want the CONTROL key to be placed, what about the "internet" key, or "sleep" or the ones that control the CD player?

I don't consider myself a hacker, and the only code I write is HTML, but I have found a keyboard that seems to work quite well for me.Check it out It's the one in the top left. This is an ergonomic keyboard on steroids. It looks really difficult to get used to, but I will never go back to a straight keyboard again. It took about one week to get used to. The arrow keys are arranged in a circle, below the gap in the space bar. Which brings up another question, when I learned how to type, we were only supposed to press the space bar with the right thumb, so I don't get why they'd take up so much room with it on the left half of the keyboard. The ESCAPE key is all by itself in the corner, very difficult to get it confused with any other key. However, the banished keys, insert, end, home, etc. are radicly differently placed and will take a lot of adjusting.

The more expensive version of this keyboard comes with a touch pad inside the arrow keys, which could be controlled with the left thumb rather easily. I find this arrow setup to be ideal for gaming, as there is absolutely no way to get the arrows confused, and while you're holding one of the arrows down, the entire left half of the keyboard is easily accessible.

Another of the really noticeable features of this keyboard is that the numeric pad is completely separate from the letters, this means that if space is at a premium, you can unplug it, or tuck it towar the back of your keyboard tray then slide it forward to crunch some numbers.

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