[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.