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As another poster said, mouse and keyboard without moving hands around. Before I settled on the Kenisis, I tried a bunch of unusual input schemes to reduce the
by jitl 5y ago
As another poster said, mouse and keyboard without moving hands around. Before I settled on the Kenisis, I tried a bunch of unusual input schemes to reduce the “switch time” from typing to pointing activities. Some of the stuff I tried:
- Trackpad between split keyboard. Difficult to use because of edge rejection; had to move hands too much to reach the live zone.
- Bluetooth ring mouse - tiny trackpad mounted on a finger or thumb wring. Surprisingly usable, but lacks fine controls for text selection/drawing, or takes too much effort to move around the screen. Not enough surface area for acceleration to kick in.
- Finger mouse - like strapping a desktop optical mouse sensor to the index finger. Too weird, still needs the hand to move to a mousepad away from the keyboard.
- Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint - decent, but keyboard not ergonomic enough. Missed mechanical keys
- tenkeyless mechanical keyboard with trackpoint - good, but not fantastic. Still not ergonomic enough. One or two keys needed re-soldering, and then another few started to fail later. Annoying.
Eventually I decided to commit to Kenisis advantage for typing input, and a normal mouse for pointing. But I still think about this sort of thing.
I never got around to trying a foot mouse or pedals though.