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It would seem to me that if you're going to replace a hand with a prosthetic anyway, that it makes little sense to limit yourself to normal keyboards. Keyboards
by Osmium 12y ago
It would seem to me that if you're going to replace a hand with a prosthetic anyway, that it makes little sense to limit yourself to normal keyboards. Keyboards are designed with the limitations and function of human hands in mind. Why go to the effort to replicate a human hand so that you can use a keyboard, when you could just skip a step and design a prosthetic attachment that acts as a keyboard directly? Just a thought.
It wouldn't surprise me if, as prosthetics get better and better, they eventually surpass what human limbs are capable of (this has already happened to an extent with people with artificial hands able to rotate them by 180º). At that point, why not design something better than the human hand to start with? Seems like an interesting 'opportunity', if it can be called that.