Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Keyboard Design - December 9, 2009




I figured I may as well include this along with mouse. Like the mice designs, the keyboard can range from standard black keyboard with white letters, or vice versa, to detachable keyboards with lights coming out of every key. Most keyboards are a straight design with the standard QWERTY key setup, with variations coming in the insert and side number area. The next most popular in the ergonomic keyboard which aims to relieve stress on the wrist and hand by setting up the keyboard in a sort of curve that is natural to your positioning. There are others who are taking that a step further like Nicholas Tavas who designed the crazy contraption up above. Like the mouldable mouse, he makes it so that the user can customize their setup to another level. The split down the middle allows for more or less curve depending on how you're used to typing. The split also causes much less bend in the elbows reaching a near perfect setup ergonomically. There are too many variations of the regular keyboard so I won't get too far into it, but this is just one example of someone taking a basic design and going to another level with it. It's things like this that cause the change the industry needs.

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