Pyramid Shaped Keyboard

Lordkolya wrote in to tell us about a pyramid shaped keyboard. It's supposed to be ergonomic, but it sure is ugly. I still need to try one of the Kinesis keyboards out. It's time for me to change keyboards again. I dunno if I can learn a new chording keyboard. I've tried a few one handed boards and had bad luck. Maybe I'm not destined to learn any more chords then E-A-D.

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Gah!

[FFFish]

"Fundamentally, it is a pyramidal design with two edges rounded to accommodate and orientate the palms of the user's hands."

WTF do people have to make up words like "orientate" when perfectly servicable words (like "orient") already exist?

False Authority Syndrome at work.

[Chmarr]

The century old conventional Qwerty (look at first five characters on the upper left of your keyboard) layout was intentionally designed to slow down typist on the original mechanical designs. The logical way to accomplish that goal was to place characters in locations that stressed the operator's hands, forcing them to slow down.

That is such rubbish. Not only are there six characters in 'QWERTY', but the original layout was not meant to slow down the typist, but to reduce the chance that two letters next to each other in a word would require that two keys next to each other on the keyboard (as viewed from the 'piano keys with the letters raised on them's point of view) be struck, thus increasing the chance of a jam.

So, in fact, the querty layout was designed to speed up typing, by requiring less of an artificial pause between keystrokes.