Microsoft recently announced another new keyboard, this one’s called the Sculpt Comfort Keyboard.
The Sculpt Comfort Keyboard, an ergonomic keyboard featuring an enlarged split spacebar with optional backspace functionality that enhances typing efficiency and speed. From its thoughtful design and ergonomic shape to the Windows 8-specific keys, the Sculpt Comfort Keyboard is the perfect Windows 8 desktop companion for productivity and comfort.
Research and Design
With the Sculpt Comfort Keyboard, Microsoft is introducing its first keyboard to feature a split backspace-spacebar key. This design choice is the result of internal research that showed 90 percent of typists use only their right thumb to press the spacebar, leaving a lot of unused real estate on the left side of the bar. Research also showed the backspace key is the third most pressed key on the keyboard — behind the spacebar itself and the letter “e” — but constantly striking backspace breaks a person’s typing stride because of its location on the top right-hand corner of the keyboard. In response to these findings, Microsoft made two adjustments to help increase typing efficiency and speed:
· Increased the width of the spacebar to make the bar easier to strike.
· Split the spacebar to make use of the neglected left-hand side as an extra backspace key.
Ergonomics
The Sculpt Comfort Keyboard’s advanced ergonomics are the result of many unique design features. In addition to increasing typing efficiency, the keyboard’s split spacebar also improves ergonomics by virtually eliminating the awkward “pinky reach” to the standard backspace key, keeping wrists in a comfortable position. The keyboard also sports Microsoft’s own Contour Curve design, which features a six-degree bend in the keyboard layout with a dome-shaped arc to help promote a comfortable, neutral wrist position while keeping keys within easy reach. Its removable palm rest can be used for added comfort or easily detached with the press of a button for a sleek, compact look.
Designed by Microsoft, Optimised for Windows
The Sculpt Comfort Keyboard also includes several keys that give customers quick access to the most commonly used Windows 8 features, including Search, Share, Device and Settings hot keys and an updated Windows key. With its wireless USB connectivity, the Sculpt Comfort Keyboard also reduces the unnecessary clutter of wires.
· Contoured design creates a natural arc that promotes a comfortable, neutral wrist position and puts keys within easy reach.
· Detachable padded palm rest provides added comfort when attached and a sleek, compact look when removed.
· Palm Lift helps to straighten and support the wrists .
· Split space bar with backspace functionality is designed to make the most of the keyboard’s real estate while providing the added ergonomic benefit of avoiding the awkward “pinky” reach to the standard backspace key.
· Equipped with Windows 8 Hot Keys so you can quickly search, access device settings and share with the tap of a finger.
Wireless USB connectivity gives you increased freedom and mobility.
The Sculpt Comfort Keyboard will be available soon for an estimated retail price of £59.99.
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