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A One-Handed Keyboard For $25
Bruce Perens writes "Slashdot has often featured attempts at improvement upon the QWERTY keyboard. Here's a one-handed USB keyboard that you can buy for $25 online, or a bit more at the CompUSA. There's one catch: someone will have to design a keying pattern and hack up software for it. It's a task just crying out for an Open Source project." Bruce has also included on the linked page code with which to read the output from the device.
It's way more of a problem outside the States than in it, simply because nobody here drives stick any more. It's mainly a commentary on our attitude toward cars, sadly, which is why all the good ones come from Europe: Americans think of cars primarily as a means of getting from A to B. For those of us who think of the car not as a means, but an end... we learn to drive stick and make denigrating remarks to our loser friends who only know how to drive automatics. (Though in reality this makes us secretly relieved, since we know they will never ask to drive our expensive German sportscars and we will not have to embarrass them by explaining in detail why they couldn't handle a Real Car.)