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(Nearly) Zero-Force Keyboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-think-at-it-hard dept.

ahertz writes: "Just ran across another nifty keyboard, the FingerBoard from FingerWorks. It's like a giant touchpad (although the technology is a bit different), so you can type with virtually zero force. It also works as a mouse, and lets you perform guesture based commands. Would something like this be good for someone with RSI?" To me, this looks like the most unresponsive, most annoying possible keyboard, even if I'm a QUERTY typist rather than a shuffle-weird-disc-items typist, and trackpads always seem wibbly to me.

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  1. QUERTY?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    Er, QUERTY, eh? Didn't you notice that you weren't using the keys at the top-left of your keyboard?

  2. Yeah, right... by Polo · · Score: 5

    Looking at the image, I can't imagine why I would type with my hands crossed.

    The picture shows an image of a right hand on the left hand side of the keyboard.

  3. guesture based commands by IainMH · · Score: 5

    lets you perform guesture based commands

    Oh dear. If my laptop starts to understand some of the gestures I make to it, it would never talk to me again.