The worst keyboard in the world
March 31st, 2008
Ok, I confess, I have seen worse keyboards in the world. But this is definitely the worst space bar I’ve ever seen. I found this gem at an Internet kiosk in the Minneapolis airport, on my way back from Pittsburgh last week.
My complaints:
- Do not SPLIT my space bar. The spot in the middle is where my thumbs work their magic!
- Really. I mean, it’s called a bar, not a series of goofy keys.
- Do not make the remaining buttons small, as hitting the side by accident results always in either 0 or 2 spaces.
Anyone else come across evil keyboards in their travels? I want photos!
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YES! I’ve seen this - and used to hate them! During my days over at Baruch College in NY..
Keep it up!
PCWord did a review of the 10 worst keyboards some time ago, and I can only agree that some of them are just plain ugly, and obviously totally inadequate for any serious computer-related task…
Here is the link :
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139100/article.html
A coworker of mine picked up a similar keyboard somewhere, and the key selling point was resistance to vandalism.
Ji scott, remeber this gorgeous and resistant keyboard (at least the mockup of it)
http://tayasui.com/myBook_files/mybook%20keyspsd.jpg
http://tayasui.com/myBook_files/keys.jpg
more on http://www.tayasui.com
yann.
I don’t have a picture, but about five years ago the local public library replaced its standard keyboards with something where the space bar was truncated, and the left 40% of it was a backspace key instead. Since I tap spacebar with my LEFT thumb, this caused me no end of frustration.
Garg. Patent #5711624 describes the abominable thing, and it contains this gem of a rationalization: “(Almost all touch typists only use the right thumb to activate the spacebar and do not use the left thumb at all.)”
My spacebar is worn shiny on the left side.
Susan: I’m a lefty, so mine is all shiny on the left side too :)