[szeevim]

I totally agree. The keyboard space hasn't seen any innovation in the past 30 years or more. While most of us spend hours using this old device wasting unnecessary energy, it is time for a new cost effective technology to change this. Now the important part is not the change the existing experience we have today.

[EliRivers]

So much time wasted in schools teaching children secretarial skills on proprietary software packages that will have been replaced by the time they finish school anyway.

We could do a lot worse than giving to every such child, instead of practice in Microsoft Word, a decent (possibly primarily one-handed) chord keyboard on which they learn to touchtype.

[VLM]

You need a way to roll the tech out. We've got tons of unknown tech if you search the marketplace hard enough. For example a couple people suggest the Truly Ergonomic website. But that's never going to sell me, because I have no idea how it actually feels compared to my "current" early 90s model M.

What we need is a middleman, maybe MLM, who will do keyboard "tupperware parties" or maybe a stealth middleman under the cover of business RSI prevention consulting. In the old days I could go to compusa and try keyboards, err... and looks like best buy is failing too now... so if you want to actually try a keyboard you're pretty much limited to walmart and the apple store and they've only got one POS to try.

Its interesting how a pretty core part of the clothing retailing business model is built around try before buy, but keyboards don't allow that. If I have 14 business shirts I'll try on the 15th before buying it to "make sure" even though if I totally screw up I still only have to wear it 1/15th of the time even if it doesn't fit perfectly. Yet the keyboard that I have to use every day for hours, eh, just order the cheapest, online, sight unseen, who cares if the employee's hands rot and fall off we'll just hire another...

[jfb]

This is part of the reason that I have an extra Kinesis; I lend it out to friends to try and get them to consider switching from shovelware garbage.