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keyboard/monitor combo
integrates keyboard and monitor to avoid having to keep looking up while you are typing | |
I was reading through the "Spelling Catastrophe Light" topic, and I thought "Hey - Good Idea." (The apostrophe's weren't part of the thought - I put them in the text so that you could see what the thought was.)
But then I got thinking "The light would have to be mounted on the keyboard or I would never
see it flashing".
My mind wandered (wondered?) on, and I thought "Hey - why not devise a computer system that displays what you are typing on the actual keyboard (cos I don't know about you, but I get awful neck ache having to keep looking up to see what I actually typef=d - especially with these stupid progressive bi-focals).
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Practice, practice, practice. |
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There were typewriters that had something like this. Don't know if they still exist. You *can* get desks that mount the monitor in an upward-facing angle behind a window. This would let you keep your head pointed more-or-less down while typing. Might alleviate your whiplash. |
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The best way to deal with this, of course, is to learn how to touch-type. Then you can stare at your monitor all you want, and never have to look down. |
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The ridges on the home keys are there for a reason. Also, when you're looking at what you're typing instead of at your fingers on the keyboard, you can still tell when you've made a mistake - and even how you need to adjust your fingers to correct it.. =) |
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Thank you Sachac - I must have an old keyboard though because my "Home" key does not have ridges, neither does my keyboard have an "Anykey" that I'm always being asked to press if I want to continue.. |
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ah but then, I would have chronic neck pains from always being bent down. |
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although, I can see where this would be very handy (haha...ha...ok fine it wasn't funny), since you're right, it is annoying to have to look up and down to fix spelling errors. |
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But then, there is always practice. Touch typists are amazing, just watch em go! |
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Could you have your screen projected onto a glass pane that is suspended above your keyboard so that you could see your hands underneath and follow the text on the screen with a quick adjust of focus within your manually controlled eyes? |
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Is this not a touchscreen? |
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How about like in (not exactly the best film of all time) Johhny Mnenomic, he's using a VR set..try Youtube "Johnny Mnemonic Future Internet" search string. |
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