SafeType makes a vertical keyboard. Unlike most eccentric keyboards, this one is not intended to speed up your typing. In fact it will slow it down by 10% and increase your error rate by 2%. Its sole reason for existence is to eliminate carpal tunnel strain. A traditional keyboard, even an ergonomic one makes you twist your hand out of natural position in three ways:
With the SafeType you don’t do any of those three potentially carpal-triggering things.
The keyboard has three pieces, a left and right vertical section each with half of a traditional QWERTY keyboard on it and a flat conventionally-mounted keyboard in the middle, with the navigation keys and the numeric keypad on it. See the photos below. Those strange flaps that look like rear view mirrors on a motorcycle are indeed mirrors, to let you see what you are doing if you hunt and peck. You can retract them if you are a pure touch typist.
Click on the small photo to see an enlargement. Some of the key legends are reversed so they will appear correctly in the mirror.
Left Vertical |
Center Flat |
Right Vertical |
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