If you’re the kind of person who uses a laptop for many hours a day, you know if the monitor is at the right height for your back and neck, your arms and shoulders are too high; if the keyboard is at the best height for your arms and shoulders, you must hunch your shoulders and neck to see the monitor.

I, also, as many others do, want to kill our QWERTY keyboard — not because I believe there are other layouts which offer faster typing, but because I don’t want to have shoulders, neck, or back pain.

The Prototype

Some clay, Bluetooth modules, and a few spare hours produced the first prototype.

It consists of two wireless keyboards (one for each hand) that can be held in a very natural hand position. It lets you freely choose where to put your hands; you can do squats or even run on a treadmill while you type.

Each finger controls two buttons ,except the thumb . The first button can be quickly pressed by the tip of the finger, while the second can get pressed by straightening your finger. This means that minimal movement is required, improving speed and precision, similarly to a QWERTY with only the home row.

The thumbs are the most skilled fingers we have, but in traditional keyboards, we only use one of them for the space key. What a waste! Here we put four buttons foreach thumb.

This give us a total of 24 keys; way less than the 78 of your macbook. Stenographers make real-time transcriptions for court reporting using a special type of keyboard which only has 22 keys. Some of them can reach an incredible 300 words per minute.