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elpeterson
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Feb 16, 2018
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I just got the email about this, it says it's an “Ergonomic keyboard you can make your own” what about this board is ergonomic?
Vigrith
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Feb 16, 2018
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BrannyI'm pretty sure it's eluding to the fact that the HHKB was designed to maintain one's fingers on the home row as much as possible by carefully crafting its layout. It's comfortable to use and that was the main selling point until it became a sought after niche enthusiast product.
Nothing to do with actual case ergonomics.
Nothing to do with actual case ergonomics.
elpeterson
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Feb 17, 2018
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VigrithOr any actually ergonomics since, if anything, the case should be angled the opposite was and the keys should be linear.
tokyocoffeenerd
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Tokyo Keyboards
Feb 17, 2018
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elpetersonhaha yeah - think the team at MD figured that was the right message for the email vs the drop page. @Vigrith yeah it's alluding to the layout but pretty sure it would be too much to explain in a news letter!
Vigrith
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Feb 17, 2018
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elpetersonYour post was a little hard to decipher but either way what you just stated is opinion, not fact.
The literal definition of ergonomics is "an applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely"; before the era of re-programmable keyboards the HHKB layout was/is more efficient and comfortable to use (even if marginally so) for most people than a regular ANSI-US board because of its shorter travel from homing in daily use.
That, by definition, makes it ergonomic. Just because the ergodox is ortholinear rather than staggered it doesn't mean anything that is staggered isn't ergonomic. Whether you agree or disagree with the notions I've provided is irrelevant to the argument at hand, as per Oxford's definition of ergonomics as well as the study of it as a science Massdrop's use of the word is correct. It's inarguable.
The literal definition of ergonomics is "an applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely"; before the era of re-programmable keyboards the HHKB layout was/is more efficient and comfortable to use (even if marginally so) for most people than a regular ANSI-US board because of its shorter travel from homing in daily use.
That, by definition, makes it ergonomic. Just because the ergodox is ortholinear rather than staggered it doesn't mean anything that is staggered isn't ergonomic. Whether you agree or disagree with the notions I've provided is irrelevant to the argument at hand, as per Oxford's definition of ergonomics as well as the study of it as a science Massdrop's use of the word is correct. It's inarguable.
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