I mentioned in my last post that the Ergomotion keyboard was a bit too wide for my liking making the classic mistake of hogging up deskspace without leaving room for other necessary input devices. This extra distance your arm has to travel to reach your mouse can make all the difference to your RSI.  I usually complain about this issue with reference to the extra space that the numeric keypad takes up – but more precisely the problem is that there’s usually one section for navigation keys (home, up, down etc) and then another section for the numeric keypad. Which together can be quite a hog on your desk space.

But it turns out that the promotional video shows the original keyboard design, but they pulled back the release date to make a more compact design. If you look at the images of the Ergomotion keyboard on the Smartfish site, or above, you’ll notice that these two sections have been neatly merged now and are nice and tight to the regular key, making it quite compact overall.

So there goes any reservations I had about it. It looks like a really well designed ergonomic keyboard in the truest sense, in that it takes every keyboard issue into consideration. Good job!

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