I've played with various keyboards, both ergonomic and non-ergonomic. Your ordinary Microsoft Natural Keyboard doesn't seem to do much for me, but I'm typing on a Kinesis Maxim (someone else already linked the site), and at school (yes, I'm a college student) I'm stuck with non-ergonomic keyboards and more often than not, the worst mice I've ever touched (the Apple hockey pucks). It is not a coincidence that when I try to do things at school my wrists sometimes pain me.
Then again, I don't really blame them for keeping the puckmice... the nifty Apple optical mice get stolen constantly. Sigh. Wish someone would take the puckmice instead so I could have something useful to work with.
One keyboard I haven't seen mentioned that deserves such is a Datahand keyboard, possibly the strangest looking keyboard I've ever seen. My boyfriend used to type on one before his ligamentitis prevented him from typing at all, and he did say it reduced pain. It let him keep his job an additional couple months until he was laid off (due to unrelated causes).
As for all of you whining about RSI being nonexistant... I must disagree. See the paragraph up there about my boyfriend? His wrists are in such bad shape that he can't type AT ALL or do anything that involves his hands for extended periods of time without pain. This includes driving, lifting, pushing buttons on a cash register, writing... the list goes on. He's currently going back to college, where he's actually needing other people to help him write, take notes, and if he weren't living with someone willing to help him by typing up papers and essentially be his secretary, I don't know where he'd be. It's bad enough not being able to use your hands, but to be insulted by claiming that since "I don't feel the pain, it must not exist," is ludicrous. Are there people using carpal tunnel as a gold mine? I'm sure there are, and they deserve to be ignored, but honestly, when it gets to the point where you'd be better off if you had no hands at all, things are out of hand.
I'll stop ranting now. Honest. But this is a big issue to me, for fairly obvious reasons.
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Actually, I didn't think the bill of rights applied to civil law - but I could be wrong.
If you like f ree f on t s l ook i ng l i k e t h i s, sure. Be my guest.
Actually, there is an OSX port of it - I have seen it in action and it is much like the PC version.
I've played with various keyboards, both ergonomic and non-ergonomic. Your ordinary Microsoft Natural Keyboard doesn't seem to do much for me, but I'm typing on a Kinesis Maxim (someone else already linked the site), and at school (yes, I'm a college student) I'm stuck with non-ergonomic keyboards and more often than not, the worst mice I've ever touched (the Apple hockey pucks). It is not a coincidence that when I try to do things at school my wrists sometimes pain me.
Then again, I don't really blame them for keeping the puckmice... the nifty Apple optical mice get stolen constantly. Sigh. Wish someone would take the puckmice instead so I could have something useful to work with.
One keyboard I haven't seen mentioned that deserves such is a Datahand keyboard, possibly the strangest looking keyboard I've ever seen. My boyfriend used to type on one before his ligamentitis prevented him from typing at all, and he did say it reduced pain. It let him keep his job an additional couple months until he was laid off (due to unrelated causes).
As for all of you whining about RSI being nonexistant... I must disagree. See the paragraph up there about my boyfriend? His wrists are in such bad shape that he can't type AT ALL or do anything that involves his hands for extended periods of time without pain. This includes driving, lifting, pushing buttons on a cash register, writing... the list goes on. He's currently going back to college, where he's actually needing other people to help him write, take notes, and if he weren't living with someone willing to help him by typing up papers and essentially be his secretary, I don't know where he'd be. It's bad enough not being able to use your hands, but to be insulted by claiming that since "I don't feel the pain, it must not exist," is ludicrous. Are there people using carpal tunnel as a gold mine? I'm sure there are, and they deserve to be ignored, but honestly, when it gets to the point where you'd be better off if you had no hands at all, things are out of hand.
I'll stop ranting now. Honest. But this is a big issue to me, for fairly obvious reasons.