Blank Keyboard 994
Raynach writes "A friend of mine recently sent me a link for Das Keyboard, the keyboard for UberGeeks. This keyboard is unique in that it has no inscriptions on the keys, which the maker touts will make you type 100% faster in a few weeks since it will keep you from looking at the keyboard. This keyboard also features individually weighted keyswitches, "The keys are divided into groups and their feedback springs are weighted differently; from 35 grams to 80 grams, which correspond to the strength of the finger that touches the keys." But is this "UberGeek" keyboard really worth the high price tag?"
Business skill at work (Score:5, Insightful)
Too many keyboard layouts (Score:5, Insightful)
> faster in a few weeks since it will keep you from
> looking at the keyboard.
10-15 years ago I might have agreed with this, but today there are so many keyboard layouts that it is impossible not to look. The ~ and | symbols are in a different place on every one of the 10 keyboards I use daily, for example.
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Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:a tip (Score:4, Insightful)
Ads... (Score:1, Insightful)
Seriously, is this anything other than a glorified advertisement for this keyboard?
Re:Calculator key? (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh, I can afford two bucks but thanks for the offer! I'll settle for a recommendation of a calculator I can copy/paste into the windows clipboard?
Re:reason for, reason not for (Score:5, Insightful)
I absolutely agree here! It is almost nothing short of amazing. Wonder if you've ever had the experience where you are typing something, you think one word, and another perfectly spelled "other" word appears on the screen/paper? That one totally freaks me out. It's pretty clear that the adaptation by the body has just created another channel of language.... While I've never learned sign, I'm guessing it's a similar deal.
(By the way, it'd be nice if typing classes came back... I never took any classes because at the time, it was only for "secretarial" training, and computers as we know them today didn't exist.... like I stated before it was only because of a crisis in tension I even addressed the issue of learning the keyboard. Are there typing classes anymore?)
Re:a tip (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Is there a DVORAK version? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Calculator key? (Score:3, Insightful)
The happiest I've ever been with a keyboard was a small black wireless one, sans num keys, but I have an extra (wired) set of num keys, if I so need them. It was small (about the size of a 12" laptop keyboard), meaning my fingers needed less play to type.
My other favorite keyboard was the giant IBM behemoth keyboard, that could, if you so choose, protect you from bullets and on-comming traffic.
Whats so special about top buttons, anyway? Most of the keyboards hat have them have a silly software prog that has to be running all the time. If your so lazy that you NEED to have everything at finger level, and not at mousing desktop level, then... well... I'm speachless. You can move your mouse a whole inch for the same program...
Re:reason for, reason not for (Score:2, Insightful)
P.S. I look at the keyboard all the time. Am I the only one that can remember roughly a line of text and not need to look back up at the screen in order to edit it or continue typing. My fingers don't have eyes, but I'm not yet so feeble that I can't remember the sentence I'm typing. I don't retype written ttext or type from dictation, that job is for machines.
P.S. - This is not to say that blind typing is a useless skill.
Re:A disaster for Europeans! (Score:1, Insightful)
I can only guess why or if the longer pressing of the shift-key has any practical sense, but it explains where this comes from.
Re:I had a better suggestion (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:a tip (Score:3, Insightful)
Now, I flopped my caps lock and ctrl key so that it's a very small motion to hit ctrl. I tried it on the Sun keyboards in the comp sci labs at school and won't go back.