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New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the museum-piece-or-wave-of-the-future dept.

Enigma5O writes to tell us The Tech Zone is reporting on a new style of keyboard with just 53 keys. Departing from the normal QWERTY keyboard setup the 'New Standard Keyboard' designed by John Parkinson measures just 12.5 inches wide x 5 inches deep x 1 inch thick and is arranged in alphabetical order. The keyboard has been designed with ergonomics in mind keeping all keys within easy reach of the home position. The only question is, will everyone be willing to relearn how to type?

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  1. Re:My Theory of Keyboard Design by badfish99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My vote is for Chinese. No masculine/feminine/neuter, no irregular verbs, no plurals...

  2. Re:My Theory of Keyboard Design by vortigern00 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Simple like the mac, huh?

    Have you ever tried to use a mac?

    I had to use a mac late last week... it's the first time I've touched a mac since... oh, jeez 1994 I guess.

    I couldn't get the damn machine to do ANYTHING. All I wanted to do was view source on an html document and edit the source to get rid of a browser incompatibility in that infernal p.o.s. safari, and I could not edit a simple freaking text file. It was purely infuriating. And all the cutesy damn buttons that do nothing you expect them to. To hell with that crap.