Wave Keyboard from Logitech

Now that I’ve had my Logitech Wave Keyboard for a few weeks now I can more accurately asses my feelings for it. For those of you who are lazy bums and don’t like reading, be satisfied with the conclusion in the first paragraph and know that: I love it! Seriously never had a keyboard so comfortable in my life. It took me a week or two to get used to the number keys as I believe they have the biggest curvature to them. I would also often hit “caps lock” instead of “shift” while playing CoH for some reason. Just the reach reaction for me naturally went to the caps lock key… I’ve kind of gotten over that and become more adapt to the layout of the keyboard though.

Logitech Wave Keyboard

I honestly didn’t notice much of a comfort difference with the Logitech Wave Keyboard for a while though. It was just an ordinary keyboard. Until one day when I really started using it how it was made to be. I got back into coding for ApplyMyWay.com and blogging for money. I got home from Quintiles Wednesday wrote two entries that night, 14 entries Thursday, and 18 on Friday. All over 200 words, all unique, and no pain in my hands or wrist. You can also read about a little speed increase I’ve noticed in the original review I did of the keyboard when I first got it.

Later however for some reason I felt the urge to open the package that contained the small instruction pamphlet (well illustrated might I add) and keyboard drivers.В  In opening up the pamphlet the first thing I saw because of how it was folded was instruction number two which is simply a picture of the front of a computer (A HP from the looks of it) and a finger pushing the power button.В  Under the picture in English, French, Spanish, and Portugese was the instructions “Turn ON computer.”В  Where I thought to myself “Dear Lord if this is the second instruction I can’t even imagine what the first one was.”В  Okay, just so you know your brand new pretty shiney keyboard won’t work without the computer on…. WHEW!!! Glad we got that out of the way, I thought my keyboard was broken, almost had to return it… but as it turns out the computer was just not on… thank you instruction manual for clearifying that, I thought I could use your keyboard without a computer.В  Out of curiosity I flipped through and found instruction number one.В  I was halfway expecting it to be something like “REMOVE keyboard from packaging” I was slightly relieved at the first thing listed being package contents… but not far off from remove keyboard from packaging… guess you’ve already managed to accomplish that step if you’re holding the instruction manual but you never know… and I do sincerely hope you didn’t hurt yourself in the process!

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.