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Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: IBI on Tue, 28 April 2009, 14:52:01

No, not that Tactus, instead here's a keyboard with walls on.

(http://www.tactuskeyboard.com/images/i_1352.jpg)

Close up detail:
(http://www.tactuskeyboard.com/images/i_1356.jpg)

Quote

Learning to Touch-Type Takes Much Less Time
TACTUS shortens the time required to learn to touch-type to 4-5 hours. The TACTUS ridges eliminate the need for training the fingers to hit the correct keys, which is the step that takes time and requires constant practice. In the TACTUS keyboard, the ridges tell the finger its position on the keyboard unequivocally so you only need to learn where the keys are.

Touch-Typing is Easier
The TACTUS ridges help achieve good speed and high accuracy without the need for long and constant practice. TACTUS therefore makes touch-typing much easier for people who do not spend a lot of time typing. This is the case of people who use a computer as part of their jobs but do not spend the majority of their professional time typing. These people are unlikely to spend sufficient time at the keyboard building their touch-typing skills. With TACTUS, they can touch-type effectively even if the time spent at the keyboard is small.

Website (http://www.tactuskeyboard.com/product.htm).

The keys seem to be rubber dome from the specifications, but it does have the 'RPG dungeon map' coolness factor going for it.

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: FKSSR on Tue, 28 April 2009, 15:46:03

wow.  weird. :)

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: dw_junon on Tue, 28 April 2009, 16:40:43

Potentially quite brilliant (4-5 hours though?...).  I'm guessing they wouldn't make IBM compatible keycap uppers, alas.

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: huha on Tue, 28 April 2009, 17:15:01

The idea is quite nice, but the price is a joke. These are standard keyboards with different keycaps, which does in no way justify the price. They start at about $85, which is just too much for a rubber dome board.

-huha

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: D-EJ915 on Tue, 28 April 2009, 19:54:25

^ that actually looks sweet, too bad the keyboard is a piece of ****

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 28 April 2009, 21:28:25

:puke:

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: bigpook on Tue, 28 April 2009, 21:58:50

Quote from: xsphat;87990

:puke:

These smiley's you guys have been using are just great....  : )

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: rdjack21 on Tue, 28 April 2009, 22:08:58

Quote from: ripster;87914

This is another variation,  the Keyright ($40).  Actually has a patent:

Click the pic for webite but watch out for those popup talking people

Show Image

(http://joyofgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/large-keyboard.jpg)
 (http://www.keyright.com/look-and-learn-typing-solution.html)

- Ripster

P.S.  My kid claims he can type faster without using the pinkies.   At this combative age I don't want to make a big deal of it.

I would think that the best keyboard to learn on would have blank keys so you don't look at the keyboard at all. You would need a keyboard layout on the screen while learning but after you learned you would no longer need that and you would not have the really bad habit of looking at the keyboard to find a keys.

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 28 April 2009, 22:10:57

That keyboard would be for Windows.

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: bhtooefr on Tue, 28 April 2009, 22:19:14

I'll note that I rarely use my pinkies while typing. IMO, there's not one correct form. There's correct forms for each person, and those forms can be different.

Title: Tactus Keyboard
Post by: bigpook on Tue, 28 April 2009, 22:40:31

I use all fingers including the pinky. I agree as to correct form. Everyone is different.