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If you're typing on a standard QWERTY keyboard, and most of us are, then your keyboard design is over 100 years old (135 years old, to be exact). Can you imagine using a hard drive that was designed a decade ago? Or a processor from two centuries past?

Currently, computer users don't have much choice in keyboard design. Just about every computer comes factory equipped with a standard flat QWERTY keyboard. Since keyboard design has virtually stagnated over the last few years, the expectations for change have also stagnated. Nowadays, most computer users are woe to trade in their "old reliable" for something new. Well, by the end if this series of articles you may be singing a new tune.

New and innovative designs for keyboards have been developed over the past few years--the problem is, barely anyone is aware of them.…
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