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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.
let the stream of one-handed web surfing jokes begin...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
about what the other hand is doing. "I tried to have phone sex, but the holes were too small" - Sage Francis
"yes, but is it left-handed?"
Looks pretty armless to me ;-)
What is the sound of one hand typing?
elSpike out.
Writer must be stuffed, this couldn't possibly become a successfu... oh Bruce Perens, ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h
Wow, great idea! Lets start coding! Where's the source-forge page?
the fact that most people only type with two fingers which I guess will now be one finger...
"some blogger"!?
Bart: Did, did you lose your arm in the war? Herman: My arm? Well, let me put it this way: Next time your teacher tells you to keep your arm inside the bus window, you do it!
Imagine what you could do with two of those!
My small form factor ThinkPad has such a small keyboard, it's essentially one-handed.
And it even comes with a nipple!
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
This is a gaming device. It is not a keyboard replacement. It has been around a long time. It also has no Linux drivers, so I'm not sure why it's in the "Linux" category.
That would be because it has no Linux drivers and close to a third of the content of the post (there was little content to the post) was about the fact that coding a driver would be a great project. Oh and the other reason, Bruce Perens could write about "the contemplation of my navel" and the editors would put it on linux./.
...trackball that is, I find it an excellent way to use AutoCAD. ...oh...you didn't think that......
;)
you people are sick....
A goal is a dream with a deadline
I typed that command, and my keyboard still doesn't work.
If there is a 1-hand keyboard, is there a 2-hand mouse?
I asked Google, and interestingly enough, it gave me just the opposite - a 0-hand mouse: No Hand Mouse.
Simpy
My QWERTY is just fine, as long as I use one hand at a time:
Fred was a fat ass
"Hop on my jolly polonium puppy, you union ho'..."
Greedy Fred created extra stewardesses
"Union ho?" I'll kill you!
Badass stewardesses cratered Fred
Unholy, huh?
The idea with open source is that it only takes one sucker to write the driver and the rest can benefit from the novelty of it.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Hardware problem.
Talk to a surgeon, get that fixed.