If you are suffering hands strains and injury because of long-hours typing on computer keyboard, then you should probably get a better keyboard. However, the computer keyboard that we are going to introduce to you and which is shown in the picture above could easily scare you away.

What you see on top is a real “computer keyboard” although it looks more like a robot controlling device than a computer keyboard. The scary keyboard above is designed and developed by DataHand Systems to help people avoid hand strains and injuries for long hours typing.

DataHand Systems claims that her Ergonomic keyboard helps reduce finger travel by 88%, eliminates need to visually establish home-rom hand position, 80% less repetitious than any other computer keyboards on the market and etc.

If you are curious about how to operate this “ergonomic computer keyboard”, you can read the User Guide. The experience is like learning how to operate a robot although I never operate a Robot before (who does?).

There are two versions of this DataHand System keyboard, which are Personal Edition and Professional Edition that are sold at $497 and $697 each.

Hardware Features: 

• QWERTY Key Layout
• Includes a 10-Key Number Pad on Right Hand Module
• Keys Adjust Both Vertically and Horizontally
• Modules Incline from 0 ° to 10 °
• Key Actuation Distances 88% Less than Flat Keyboards
• Key Actuation Forces 50% Less
  than Flat Keyboards
• Built-in Programmable Mouse
• Small and Large Size Palm Pads Available
• Custom Key Layouts and
  Functions Available Upon Request
• Platform Specific Interfaces
  Available Upon Request

[via DataHand Systems]

              

There is a pretty strange battles going on in the computer hardware industry. The fight is about removing the Caps Lock button on a standard computer keyboard and has the Caps Lock key retired permanently.

The group’s mission is to awaken the public and get them to seriously think about the precious keyboard real estate that is so unfairly utilized by the (nearly) worthless uppercasing shortcut.

Read “Fight to Remove Caps Key from Standard Computer Keyboard”

              

Among all PDA phones or smartphones, Blackberry devices can be crowned for having the best keypads for fast and easy typing. Nevertheless, if compared to the experience of typing on regular full-size compute keyboard, definitely Blackberry devices still can’t offer this kind of comfortable typing experience on her small keypads. Luckily, now we have a better solution for more comfortable typing experience on Blackberry devices using The Stowaway Shasta keyboard which is designed for Blackberry devices with integrated Bluetooth technology. Since this PDA keyboard uses Bluetooth technology, so users don’t have to worry about the “haunting cable problem”.

Read “Bluetooth Keyboard for Blackberry Devices - Stowaway Shasta Keyboard”

              

Have you ever though about how the world’s biggest keyboard looks like? The “Teleklettergarten” is so far can be claimed as the world’s biggest keyboard which is actually an indoor climbing wall to train for a vertical ascent. This “World’s biggest keyboard” is connected to a monitor. This keyboard is unveiled at Ars Electronica 2003 and the spokeman of this keyboard said that

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“Zune” music player, one of the “secret projects” that Microsoft is working on to compete with Apple iPod music player, has not been released yet. Nonetheless, a special type of multimedia keyboard, the Razer Pro has been released and the selling point of this Razer Pro keyboard is it supports Microsoft Zune Music Player docking. According to gizmodo.com website, this Razer Pro keyboard will be released sometime in November of this year. Interestingly, the manufacturer of this multimedia keyboard will also release a different model keyboard that supports iPod docking. This is definitely a very smart way of marketing.

Read “Zune Keyboard - Razer Pro Multimedia Keyboard”

              

One of the biggest inconveniences that we all have when we use laptop keyboard is that we don’t have a dedicated numeric pad for entering numbers. Picture shown on the right is a battery-powered numeric pad that has LCD display and can be hooked up to your laptop using USB connection. The great part about this numpad is that you actually do calculation on this numpad to get the result then anytime you can send the result to your computer with a dedicate “send” button.

              

You might have a limited desk space for your organizer and your computer keyboard and it is hard for you to keep all your things organized on your small desk. This myKeyO keyboard can be a big help as this computer keyboard is also a organizer if you open it up. You can store all your CDs in cases, desk accessories, and much more in the storage compartment underneath the computer keyboard. Besides that, the myKeyO keyboard also features backlit keys, a scroll wheel, volume control, and an integrated palm rest area. If you love this computer keyboard, you can buy it at $34.95 for wired model and $49.95 wireless model.

Read “myKeyO - Keyboard with Organizer Feature”

              

Do you believe that you actually can speed up your typing speed a lot just by learning the shortcuts on computer keyboard? When you do your daily word processing with Microsoft Word, spread sheeting withMicrosoft Excel and browsing Internet with Microsoft Internet Explorer, by just learning a little of computer keyboard shortcuts, you actually can do more things that you cant imagine you can do.

Alright, lets learn the shortcuts that you can use with your computer keyboard.

Read “Speed Up Your Typing Speed with Computer Keyboard Shortcut”

              

Japanese has invented a new innovative computer keyboard that you can wear. The keyboard has 85 keys and measures 350mm width and 135mm length. It has USB connection, so that you can plug-and-play the computer keyboard at any computer. Do you mind using this computer keyboard if a lady like in the picture is wearing it?

Read “Computer Keyboard that You Can Wear”

              

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Why we should pay about 100 dollars for a keyboard if we can a keyword that has almost the keys that worth only 15 dollars? This question always comes to our mind when we want to purchase a new keyboard. The answer that we are looking for is all about fixing our poor typing posture with better ergonomic design. This is the same case for Microsoft’s Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 which is specially designed to cure our hazardous habit - poor typing posture, which can wreak havoc on our wrists.

Read “Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000″