Half-Qwerty Keyboard (Win/Mac)
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With two Half Keyboards embedded into a standard keyboard, you now have the ultimate in flexibility. Type with one hand or two, you decide.
Online Price: $601.00
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The ultimate keyboard has arrived.
Built to the highest quality standards, the Half-QWERTY Keyboard™ has the best
of everything...
One-handed and two-handed typing.
With two Half Keyboards embedded into a standard keyboard, you now have the
ultimate in flexibility. Type with one hand or two, you decide.
Mechanical key switches.
The Half-QWERTY keyboard uses high-quality Alps mechanical key switches, with
enhanced tactile feedback for greater comfort and faster typing speeds.
Hydra Cable.
With its unique Hydra Cable, the Half-QWERTY Keyboard works with both PCs and
Macs (including older ADB Macs). The Hydra Cable has 4 connectors: PS/2, USB,
ADB, and an ADB pass though for connecting additional ADB devices. Plus: there
are no adapters to lose. All 4 connectors are directly attached to the cable, so
you never have to worry about lost adapters.
2-port USB hub.
For quickly attaching USB peripherals, nothing beats the convenience of an
in-keyboard USB hub. No more reaching through the tangle of wires behind your
computer to download photos from your digital camera. Just plug it into your
Half-QWERTY Keyboard and you're ready to go. Works great with MP3 players,
keyring hard drives, joysticks, and mice too.
International layout support.
Non-US keyboards are a little different. They have an extra key in the lower
left corner (right next to the Shift key). While the Half-QWERTY Keyboard
doesn't have this extra key (it's a US layout), it will let you do this key by
typing double-Shift-Z. The keyboard can also remap to whatever layout is
standard in your country, by simply choosing the desired layout from the
appropriate control panel on your computer.
Built like a tank.
The Half-QWERTY Keyboard is built around a rugged metal key frame that's
designed to last. It comes with a 10 year few-questions-asked warranty, but
should last much longer.
 How fast Can I learn it?
If you've never learned to type before, learning Half-QWERTY will take roughly
the time it would take to learn standard two-handed touch-typing. However, if
you are a trained touch-typist, you can learn Half-QWERTY in a matter of
minutes, with little or no retraining. In the words of one reviewer...
...Somehow your brain triggers the appropriate finger ..."
Published empirical research has shown that (on average) a touch-typist can
learn Half-QWERTY in 1/3 the time it takes to learn a one-handed chord keyboard.
Half-QWERTY's innovative "skill transfer" design makes this possible...
"Within 15 minutes, I could type 20 wpm ..."
- MACWORLD -
How does it work? The Half-QWERTY typing technique is very similar to the
standard two-handed touch-typing technique...
You place your hand where it would normally be if you were touch-typing - that
takes care of that half of the keyboard. To type the letters of the other half,
you hold down the space bar and do the same finger movement that would normally
be done by the other hand. Hitting the space bar alone still types a space.
Note that the relative finger movements used for one-handed typing are the same
as those used for two-handed typing. So, if you're already a touch-typist, you
already know them. You should be typing one-handed in a matter of minutes.
Use Either Hand
Note that Half-QWERTY works with either hand. The keyboard actually is two
virtual Half-QWERTY keyboards - one for each hand. This is done automatically,
without instruction from the user.
Sticky Keys
Sticky Keys is a feature that makes typing modifier-key sequences (e.g., capital
letters) easier for one-handed typists, in that you no longer have to type the
modifier (e.g.: Shift, Control, Alt) and the key being modified simultaneously.
You can type them in succession. Depressing and releasing a modifier key once
makes it active for the next key typed. Pressing it twice locks it until it is
unlocked by pressing the modifier again.
Check out
the Windows Demo
Check out
the Macintosh Demo
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