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Is this somehow involving the heel of the palm, or does this
device go on the floor? |
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Could be built into socks, sandals, shoes, etc. |
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You could use the spare space in the heel of your shoes
with a small laser on the tip of the toes to act as a
wireless mouse charged through some sort of
piezoelectric method. Thereby freeing up your hands
to concentrate on the keyboard. |
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Its kind of a rear guard action against the onslaught of
touch screen displays. ! |
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Sadly the concept has been half baked a number of
times. |
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Strange that computer interfaces focus on the hands. Church organists have had foot-keyboards (pedalboards) for centuries. It would make a lot of sense if the feet were given, for example, vowels plus shift and command keys. |
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I've often thought that it would be great to have
a shift key under my left thumb, since I always space with
my right. Oddly enough, I'm left-handed, but my left
thumb just hangs there uselessly while my other nine
fingers dance frenetically across the keys. A shift pedal
would work just as well, and it would form a natural
transition for helicopter pilots* who have decided to write
a book. The only drawback to that would be that I still
wouldn't have anything to do with my left thumb. |
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* do you know any helicopter pilots, active or retired?
Invite one over to dinner and surreptitiously glance under
the table--their feet are _always_ moving! |
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Same with pianists who try to play the harpsichord! |
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Alterother I think I may have found you something to do
with the left thumb <link> |
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Ha! I have a keyboard from the mid 90s with a split space bar, backspace on the left half. It's a really bad idea. Computer keyboards are not just used in standard touch-typing mode - gaming, pausing media players, etc. are stuffed up by such 'improvements'. |
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I also have a Microsoft keyboard, with the Insert, Home etc keys in a 3X2 arrangement instead of the usual 2X3, and with the Esc ... F12 keys smooshed closer together. Again, stupid and pointless changes. Probably intended (as usual) to make the rest of the world not Microsoft compatible. |
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Two pieces of hardware, useless except for pointing at and saying "Look! *That's* what's wrong with the world." |
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Thanks, [bigsleep]. Just spent a few minutes gazing at that. So restful. So correct. |
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I would recommend Das Keyboard <link> and if you guys
are so fussy. you can tipex whatever commands you want
on to it. |
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I have edited the registry on mine to remove the inherently obsolete CAPS LOCK on mine. it now only
serves as an alternative Shift key. |
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// Computer keyboards are not just used in standard
touch-typing mode // |
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Mine is. Some of us still just need a word processor
without
extraneous crap. |
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[Payne], I think you may indeed have found something for
me--I use backspace frequently and am currently chained
to Vista (which I have managed to mostly hamstring into
compliance). |
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"There's no place like home page." |
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//Mine is// Fair enough. I was invoking the "if it ain't broke..." principle, and also pointing out that a supposedly new concept has been around for decades. |
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But my space bar - and probably many others - has deeper standard-right-thumb-position wear, and lighter 'other' wear along its length. I tried to like the split space-bar keyboard, and ended up hating it. |
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