Ergonomic keyboards are nothing new, though Microsoft has had the market cornered for years (which I don’t know for sure, but I suspect has to do with patents).В One issue has never been solved with the older ergonomic keyboards though, granted they are better than straight keyboards, is the issue of finger length.
Wave Keyboard from Logitech
The Wave Keyboard from Logitech promises to fix that.В The wave is the first ergonomic keyboard to have lowered keys that are struck with the middle and ring fingers.В This design from the wave ergonomic keyboard helps to relieve stress that is presented with the forced straightening of your fingers.В Some of Microsofts ergonomic keyboards do this as well, however they tend to do so because of an extreme angle of the keys… I find this angle to be too drastic and puts stress in other areas.В I like a keyboard with a slight angle and never really thought about it, but there is still stress being put on your fingers when they’re forced to be flat which is why I like the design of the Logitech Wave Keyboard.
Logitech Wave Keyboard
I guess that is why I’ve always liked a little bit of both the extreme angled keyboards from Microsoft that help to relieve the flat finger stress, and the slight angled ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft that help the wrist pain.В I generally go for the light angle ergonomic keyboards, but now I no longer have to choose between the two I will have the best of both worlds.
This is great news for someone like myself who types about 100,000 keystrokes per day.В I’ve already killed off my Logitech G15 keyboard and it’s not even that old.В So it’s about time that it gets replaced, and this time not for gaming, but for comfort.В I would gladly get a DAS Keyboard, but even if the DAS does last longer I can get three Wave’s for the same price and be back at the same level of longitude as far as keyboard lasting time period.В I also don’t yet have the keyboard so I will tell you all how it goes… might make First Person Shooter gaming a little awkward, but we’ll see here soon enough.
