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rbandrewsI am typing this on a Touchstream Stealth keyboard!
I am still getting used to it. It's easy to make typos on, but also easy to correct them. Probably the weirdest part is that it's totally silent, no keys mean no key noise. I own the exact opposite of an IBM AT keyboard (of course, I also own one of those).
The mousing on it is handy but I'm not tossing my real mouse any time soon. Even a giant, high-class touchpad remains a touchpad... Sometimes a mouse really is the better controller.
But as a keyboard, it's very nice. Also extremely customizable, probably the most customizable device I have ever seen. It has an editor for a zillion different options I don't understand yet, and a gesture editor to change things like the size/position of the keys (and of course what they do).
Gestures themselves are nifty mostly. It gets a little awkward with the mouse gestures (scrolling doesn't work too well), but the keyboard stuff works beautifully. You can hold four fingers on one half to make it like you're holding shift on the other half. This is the greatest thing ever, and will go a huge way toward helping my hands, since holding down shift & co. is what kills my fingers. However, the mouse scrolling gesture goes way too fast and is fairly imprecise, and since I only do that all the time for web browsing, I still need a mouse.
Also, it's a little hard for me to not hit things accidentally with my pinkies. Basically, if you have a common typo habit, one of these will amplify it immensely.
So the moral here is: delightful, amazing keyboard, mediocre mouse. But finding an ergonomic mouse is cheap and easy, so I can easily deal with that.
I am still getting used to it. It's easy to make typos on, but also easy to correct them. Probably the weirdest part is that it's totally silent, no keys mean no key noise. I own the exact opposite of an IBM AT keyboard (of course, I also own one of those).
The mousing on it is handy but I'm not tossing my real mouse any time soon. Even a giant, high-class touchpad remains a touchpad... Sometimes a mouse really is the better controller.
But as a keyboard, it's very nice. Also extremely customizable, probably the most customizable device I have ever seen. It has an editor for a zillion different options I don't understand yet, and a gesture editor to change things like the size/position of the keys (and of course what they do).
Gestures themselves are nifty mostly. It gets a little awkward with the mouse gestures (scrolling doesn't work too well), but the keyboard stuff works beautifully. You can hold four fingers on one half to make it like you're holding shift on the other half. This is the greatest thing ever, and will go a huge way toward helping my hands, since holding down shift & co. is what kills my fingers. However, the mouse scrolling gesture goes way too fast and is fairly imprecise, and since I only do that all the time for web browsing, I still need a mouse.
Also, it's a little hard for me to not hit things accidentally with my pinkies. Basically, if you have a common typo habit, one of these will amplify it immensely.
So the moral here is: delightful, amazing keyboard, mediocre mouse. But finding an ergonomic mouse is cheap and easy, so I can easily deal with that.
