don't worry in this era of massdrop and group buys; if datahand is that good, sooner or later an enthusiast will organize a group buy for datahand and it will be under $500.
although theoretically it seems like a fantastically good input peripheral, I suspect in practice it is not that great. It never took off and turned into a mass market thing with prices significantly lowered due to economies of scale. When stuff like that happens (or fail to happen), you gotta ask why.
The world is filled with people who have arthritis or RSI pain. and a good many of these people are rich and powerful eg 80 year old lawyers, professional investors, politicians. If the datahand didn't work for them, or didn't work enough for them to spread the word to their colleagues at Bank X or the Senate at state capital Y, I'm guessing in practice the datahand has its own weaknesses.
Number one of which, is that it's a one size fits all, so a 70lb petite woman and a 500lb fatty are both going to use the same datahand.
