deskthority

Replying to Icarium: 1. Without pulling a key to check on something I have not needed to do for years, I feel sure the slot should be horizontal. You cannot do damage if you insert it wrong, but when you have it right the key will click into place. 2. It helps me with this to raise the outer side of...

All I am saying is there is sufficient market for a small company to make a living from selling the product, but to make it work there have been several matters to overcome, and one of them was "strange device resistance." Another was price resistance which made it necessary to aggressively sell the...

The market for ergonomic keyboards does not work in part because the federal court and jury made an erroneous and extremely costly decision to push the responsibility for stress injury off onto the workers while saving the corporations from liability. That made at least a thousand liability cases in...

It seems to me that Icarium must have meant “off center,” so that the keys are caused to bind in their shaft when they are not hit in the center. The problem might be eased by carefully applying a bit of graphite to the post, but I have never tried to do this. The keys can be removed by pulling them...

Floating the hands is disastrously stressful, because it strains the arms, back, and neck to support the hands over the keyboard for long hours of work. It is the reason, I can no longer use a flat keyboard for more than four hours. The stresses become unbearable. The DH supports the hands on the pa...

The only sense in which it is less effort is the sense that the force required to activate the side keys around the perimeter of the key-well (North, South, East and West) is less on the DH than the force required to activate the down keys. But the point is not that it consumes less effort (apart fr...

Not to drag out the point, there are no assumptions; only a statement of fundamental biological fact: the human hand is designed through the course of evolution to grip things. Historically, no significant preservationally-necessary work has been performed by finger tapping, unless the drumming fing...

The price is minimally approaching the true value of the DataHand keyboard. The value could be placed at the value of avoiding a medical crisis over RSI, but for me it lies in the value of the increased hours I can work compared to the maximum hours that are possible for me to work on any other keyb...

The keyboard layout I consider likely to be best on the DataHand keyboard is the Blickensderfer. The Blickensderfer typewriter can be googled, and I have seen them for sale on E-bay but have not checked lately. The typewriter was sold with QWERTY or the Blickenderfer layout, but if you wanted to buy...