It honestly surprises me that the evolution of ergonomic keyboards has been so slow. Sure, we have plenty of split keyboards now, but we don't have any commerc

It honestly surprises me that the evolution of ergonomic keyboards has been so slow. Sure, we have plenty of split keyboards now, but we don't have any commercially available DataHand-like designs [1]. Watch someone type with a DataHand you'll see that they barely need to move their fingers at all [2]! The best similarly ergonomic designs we have at the moment are a gaming keypad [3] and some DYI projects [4]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrRWTeJ0-Ow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrRWTeJ0-Ow [3] https://www.azeron.eu/ https://www.azeron.eu/ [4] https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard see also https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.800 https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.800 ---- On another note, does anybody know how good steno keyboards tend to be for RSI issues in the long run? I've practiced some steno with a regular keyboard (thanks to plover [5] and Typey Type [6]), but I'd need an actual steno keyboard to continue since I don't have N-key rollover on my current keyboard. The Georgi [7] seems like a good option and I'd imagine that it would be pretty good for ergonomics since it's a split design and also rather small. The only problem is that I'd have to learn steno which will likely take quite some time. Here's a demo of someone writing code with a steno keyboard (54 keystrokes needed vs 143 if you were using QWERTY) [8]. [5] http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ [6] https://didoesdigital.com/typey-type/ https://didoesdigital.com/typey-type/ [7] https://www.gboards.ca/product/georgi https://www.gboards.ca/product/georgi [8] https://youtu.be/Wpv-Qb-dB6g?t=380 https://youtu.be/Wpv-Qb-dB6g?t=380