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.

Oh Jeez...

[bje2]

let the stream of one-handed web surfing jokes begin...

Cue joke

[3eyedlie]

about what the other hand is doing. "I tried to have phone sex, but the holes were too small" - Sage Francis

example:

[Anonymous Coward]

"yes, but is it left-handed?"

whaw

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks pretty armless to me ;-)

Age old question answered!

[elSpike]

What is the sound of one hand typing?

Maybe

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Still Doesn't Change

[Anonymous Coward]

the fact that most people only type with two fingers which I guess will now be one finger...

Re:Then you can't buy a one-handed keyboard for $2

[Anonymous Coward]

"some blogger"!?

Obligatory Simpsons Quote

[laserbeak]

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!

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine what you could do with two of those!

Small Laptops

[Vandil X]

My small form factor ThinkPad has such a small keyboard, it's essentially one-handed.

And it even comes with a nipple!

Re:Gaming Device

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

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./.

Re:Small Laptops

[CRC'99]

Or what we call, a 'clit stick' - cos we all know what it is, we all know where it is, but I'll be buggered if we can actually use it properly.

One hand on the keyboard, one hand on my ball...

[StressGuy]

...trackball that is, I find it an excellent way to use AutoCAD. ...oh...you didn't think that......

you people are sick.... ;)

Re:Then you can't buy a one-handed keyboard for $2

[Anonymous Coward]

I typed that command, and my keyboard still doesn't work.

Re:example:

[the chao goes mu]

You're typing one handed while holding a rodent, and I'm the pervert?

No Hands Mouse

[otisg]

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 [google.com].

Left-handed? Right-handed? QWERTY!

[Tackhead]

> "yes, but is it left-handed?"

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?

Re:wow

[autophile]

Imagine what you could do with two of those!

...or a beo...oh, forget it.

--Rob

Re:Then you can't buy a one-handed keyboard for $2

[OrangeTide]

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.

Re:Left hand?

[Anonymous Coward]

looks like there is only a left-handed model available :(

Hardware problem.
Talk to a surgeon, get that fixed.