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and that's pretty much how we imagine

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this product came to be yes it is in

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fact a real thing the the key

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the key mouse and it really works exactly the way that you would think it

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does uh hey james uh remember how i said

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that i was really excited to try this out and learn to use it and tell our

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audience about it yeah yeah i'm not and one and a two and a half have fun

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longer straps for larger shoulders available power management to help

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charge your gear and backed with a five-year warranty it's pretty sick

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check it out at the link below if you've been following our escapades with weird

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or ergonomic keyboards then you'll recognize some familiar features when

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you look at the key mouse alpha for starters it's a split keyboard with each

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side having a contoured integrated wrist rest and this of course lets you spread

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your hands out as wide as your shoulders which is dank if you got wide-ass

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shoulders and optimizes the position of your wrist to prevent the three amigos

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the three main causes of repetitive stress injuries which are ulnar

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deviation which is when your risk go like this is no good extension and

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pronation which is when your hand is laying flat on the keyboard this kind of

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handles all three next it has these thumb clusters which i personally after

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having switched the ergodox over like a year and a half ago cannot live without now it just doesn't

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make any sense to use one of your strongest digits only on the spacebar so

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keymouse has four keys with cherry mx switches blue in this

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case brown on this one accessible by each thumb

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then there's the layout which is similar to the one on the kinesis advantage 2

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another great keyboard first it's ortho ortholinear which means that the keys

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are aligned instead of staggered which is a real pain if you're not used to

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using your middle finger to hit c like a good little typist but i got used to it

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eventually and it feels good now second the keys are in these concave key

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wheels they're not as deep as on the advantage 2 but it still keeps your

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fingers from stretching as far as they normally would on a traditional flat

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qwerty and finally there's only about 60 keys in total which is obviously a lot

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less than your typical 104 key layout so

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you're gonna have to get used to switching between function layers using

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these little blue and yellow keys kind of a drag now some secondary

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functions like the arrow keys and the numpad are actually pretty easy to use

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once you get used to switching layers because you can rely on the muscle memory that you already have to hit them

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but other things you'll have to learn from scratch like since when are

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parentheses over here and why is caps

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lock on a secondary layer and while i'm at it where are all the number keys all

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of those special characters have moved which can be really annoying when you're

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trying to use your password muscle memory surely they could have included

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the number row no well maybe not yes they could

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technically do it but that would come with a trade-off of adding more weight

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which is yucky because remember each one of these is a mouse

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it's actually comical how bad i am with the left mouse uh especially since i'm

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left-handed but this is actually pretty cool because for the first time in my life i can move the

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mouse around without taking my fingers off the home row and if

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you're the type to get a strained neck or shoulder then this is a godsend

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because you no longer have to reach way out for your mouse

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yes it does take some getting used to don't worry you still only have one

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cursor on the screen but each module is a fully functioning mouse with its own

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optical sensor its own left and right clicks and its own mouse

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scroll wheel that you can even click so you're free to use whichever mouse you

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want to and switch between them at will you can even use one on the far right

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side of your multi-monitor setup and then kind of hand off the cursor to the

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left when you get on that far side of your super ultra wide display like i

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have um but you can't like move them together to try to

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double your movement speed or anything crazy like that because Windows only

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accepts really one input at a time there are a couple of extras though you can

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hold this sniper type button to temporarily drop your sensitivity for

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finer control and since you can't easily pick up the mouse when you get to the

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edge of your mouse pad or an uncomfortable position this special

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little snowflake button uh-huh pauses mouse movement so that you

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can get your hands back in place without moving the pointer as for how well it

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works as a mouse though the thing that was weird for me especially at first was

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that with a regular mouse there's a certain intuitiveness to pointing around

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at things on your desktop as if the cursor is an extension of your index

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finger by comparison the key mouse felt more like fisting around and squeezing

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because the mouse click is accessible by your thumb

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one solution i had to make it feel more natural was to put the clicks up here

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instead of on the side at least then first time users wouldn't find

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themselves accidentally smashing the j key all the time like i did but

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apparently earlier versions of the product did have them up there and then

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customers reported pain after extended use plus some people actually like to

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grip the palm rest instead of keeping their hands on the keys when they move

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around so the buttons got in the way over there overall it definitely works

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well enough but i think that it's safe to say that you're not going to achieve

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the same precision as a regular mouse probably ever but what if you didn't

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have to move the whole module introducing

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the key mouse track now with this version you get a

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trackball for each hand and because it's stationary

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you also get a butt load more keys including the number rows which is

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awesome and the front-mounted clicks that were on my wishlist which would be

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sick except that they don't line up with this finger they line up with this

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finger which is gash thankfully there's a third option as long as your hands are

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big enough this little post guy up here is also a left click but wait there's

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more keyhouse also sells mounting brackets

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that

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ah that let you strap these puppies to your

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chair like you're on the bridge of the heckin starship enterprise

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it's crazy your colleagues may raise an

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eyebrow but only because they covet the splendor that you alone revel in

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seriously though it does really feel like the inner base you've always wanted

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and it's ergonomic af if only it weren't equally jank not only

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are the mounting brackets attached with velcro straps that can irritate bare

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arms but the brackets themselves sold for 45 dollars are plastic so the whole

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thing ends up flexing under your keystrokes it's like having a mechanical

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keyboard with no back plate or even negative back plate plus

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one of mine straight up broke these suck they need to be metal and bolt to the

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chair so i guess we're talking about the weak points now key mouse opted to go all in

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on 3d printing which gives them an advantage in terms of rapid prototyping

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and the ability to offer multiple skus like there's multiple sizes of the

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kimonos outfits awesome but while none of the alternative keyboards i've tried

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have matched the finish of mass market products from say Corsair or logitech

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and well as far as 3d printed objects go these are actually pretty nice

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there are still a bunch of irregularities or maybe artifacts in the

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finished product it's not a deal breaker for me but it definitely contributes to a

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cheaper look and feel hey but at least they give you nice braided cables

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instead of cheaping out like ergo docks yes wow

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but that said it's unlikely that you'll even never really need them because

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these are the first ergos i've seen that are bluetooth with a usb rechargeable

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1400 milliamp hour battery in each

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module another strong point for these keyboards is their intuitive and robust

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software that lets you customize just about anything you can imagine you can

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remap all the keys all the buttons and even the mouse wheels on up to six

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layers you can make each mouse module have a different dpi or make the mouse

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motion a different function like using one trackball as a scroll wheel you can

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make a single click register as a key combination like alt f4 and you can

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program full on macros as long as you have the software running in the

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background slight demerit there so then

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is this the ergonomic keyboard to buy well

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it's 500 bucks that's extreme for a

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keyboard but to put it in context ergonomic keyboards are typically around

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350 which merely makes it expensive in the

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ergonomic space and if you take the mouse out of the equation i put the key

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mouse about on par with the advantage too as far as ergonomics and features so

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the question becomes really whether having an integrated wireless mouse is

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worth 150 and i guess that depends on you and your rsi if it's shoulder

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related and can't be solved simply by switching to a vertical mouse then the

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key mouse could be your best and only

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option unless you want to mess around with foot pedals or something

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so my advice then is to poke around key mouse's forum where people many of whom

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have tried a ton of the different ergonomic keyboards that are available on the market today

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post reviews and are happy to answer all your newbie questions

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