RSI-Relief

A few weeks ago Microsoft released a new ergonomic keyboard. I still haven’t gotten a chance to look at one in person, but Ian Johnson of The Globe and Mail in Toronto has, and he’s written a review of it.
He calls it a “radical approach to making keyboards more comfortable”, and mostly has good [...]

Looks like Microsoft has a new keyboard coming out. Their Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 features a split keyboard design with key rows that are curved to better match the hand’s natural shape. The 14° split between the two halves of the keyboard encourages better wrist and arm alignment, reducing the potential for developing [...]

Peter Svensson, writing at Foster’s Online, reviews two ergonomic keyboards, the TypeMatrix EZ-Reach 2030 and the Kinesis Contoured Keyboard.
Each of these keyboards arrange the keys in a grid, rather than in offset rows like typewriter-style keyboards. The idea is that a grid, in which the keys are aligned both vertically and horizontally, requires less [...]

Keybowl Inc. just released a new version of their orbiTouch “keyless keyboard”. The device provides full keyboard and mouse function with no finger or wrist motion by using color-coded rings on two ergonomically-sculpted domes to produce character input. The orbiTouch creates a keystroke when you slide the two domes into one of their [...]

I’m in the market for a new ergonomic keyboard, and picked up the Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro, a package containing Microsoft’s Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0 and the Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard - their top-of-the-line ergonomic combo.
I’ve used a Microsoft Optical Mouse Blue for nearly two years, and liked it. The Blue has [...]