Matias Ergo Pro review: Even adjustable keyboards aren't one size fits all<article>
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The Matias Ergo Pro is the latest keyboard that tries to help computer users with a well-known problem: keyboards aren’t designed for hands. Instead, typists since the late 1800s through the present have had to adapt themselves to the demands of, first, mechanical layouts and, later, the constraints of one-size-fits-all arrays of electric or electronic switches.</p><p>
So-called ergonomic keyboards are designed to break and reshape a keyboard to better fit varied constraints, so that we can exercise some choice in matching the keyboard to our particular fingers.</p><p>
I’ve been testing ergonomic keyboards for more than 25 years, dating back before one of my favorites, the
Apple Adjustable Keyboard (1993). Its list price was $219, or $356 in today’s dollars. It was rumored that Apple killed this keyboard under the notion that if they offered a keyboard designed to better help users avoid repetitive strain injuries (RSI) from carpal-tunnel syndrome and other conditions, it meant the regular keyboard must be a hazard. The keyboards were prone to failure and the subject of patent and invention lawsuits, and perhaps the easier story is that Apple was distracted in the mid-1990s, and just killed it off.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2908510/matias-ergo-pro-review-even-adjustable-keyboards-arent-one-size-fits-all.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Matias Ergo Pro review: Even adjustable keyboards aren't one size fits all
