Re: Natural keyboard vs 'standard' layout. Easiest for Dvorak?

Have you looked into the Smart Board?  It has a two handed layout 
that is very unique to say the least.  For one a bit of history.  The 
guy who did most of the original research on the split keyboard was a 
man named Ullman.  His research showed among other things that a 
having the letters of the different rows directly above one another 
made typing much easier.  That is the way it is done on the smart 
board and on the kinesis and maltron layouts.  The smart board costs 
only $99.00 though and is probably the best truly ergonmic keyboard 
out there in terms of price.  All of the other keyboards retain the 
totally useless left to right setbacks designed for mecanical 
typewriters.  This left to right setback can cause injury in the left 
hand as it is counter to the design of the hand and its natural 
movements.  That is why the keys on the smart board fan out like a 
peacocks blume as your fingers do as you move them upward away from 
the home row.  For my money this is the best keyboard out there even 
though I have a kinesis advantage usb Qwerty Dvorak.  The main reason 
that I do not own a smart board is because they stopped making them 
in black.  While comfort is crucial: "my duty was always to beauty."
 Depeche Mode.
--- In [email protected], Keith Ratliff <dracorat@...> 
wrote:
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> I use a TypeMatrix and love it. Love it, Love it.
> 
> --Keith Ratliff
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Marcus Brooks <marcus@...> wrote:
> 
> >   Hand shape is probably as variable as any other human 
characteristic,
> > if not more so. I hope the market never settles on a single 
keyboard
> > shape, because no one shape can be ideal for everyone.
> >
> > I've been looking thoughtfully at the Kinesis Freestyle models--
lots
> > of adjustability there. But for me a flat keyboard still seems 
best,
> > and I already have one.
> > Cheers,
> > Marcus
> >
> >
> > On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Accessys@... <Accessys%
40smart.net>wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I went the exact opposite and feel the "natural" keyboard is 
the best
> > > "readily avaliable and reasonably priced" keyboard (kenisis and 
other
> > > exotic keyboard folks excepted)
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Dave Pawson wrote:
> > >
> > >> I've just replaced a Microsoft 'Natural' keyboard with an 
imitation
> > >> 'old' IBM keyboard,
> > >> which by comparison feels very narrow (but rather nice and 
clunky).
> > >>
> > >> Using a Dvorak layout seems somehow so much more natural than 
on
> > >> the M$ layout?
> > >> Quite possibly since the Dvorak layout was meant to be used 
with
> > >> such a layout?
> > >>
> > >> Anyone else had that comparison?
> > >>
> > >> regards
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Dave Pawson
> > >> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> > >> Docbook FAQ.
> > >> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
> > >>
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