Fascination With Keyboards

In the movie, "The Devil's Advocate," Al Pacino's character tells us why a woman's neck is so intriguing: Because it is the link between her mind and her body.

The keyboard is the link between the man and his machine.

Strange little grid of buttons: I love you.

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Everyone wants to build a better input device.

Here are some things people are trying or talking about:

The variants:

• DvorakKeyboard (not new hardware, just a different way of arranging the keys)
• Concave: KinesisKeyboard, MaltronKeyboard, ErgomaticKeyboard
• Heat-sensitive: FingerBoard
• OneFingerKeyboard

The deviants:

• DataHand
• One Hand: HandyKey, InfoGrip
• ShoeKeyboard
• PianoKeyboard
• Using plants that sense human emotions as input devices. Believe it or not this is technically feasible.
• The Mouse -- Though it's unbeatable in certain tasks and has a smaller barrier-to-entry, is just too limited to oust our polybuttonic friend.
• BioFeedback?

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