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Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'Nexis Keyboard (2005)
One solution is to buy a Kinesis keyboard: These beautiful keyboards move the Shift and Ctrl keys to your thumbs, which have more power than the lowly pinkies. This eliminates the physical pain, but it does add financial pain: $240 US -- double that if you need one for home and one for work.
These beautiful keyboards move the Shift and Ctrl keys to your thumbs, which have more power than the lowly pinkies. Basically I wanted to use these rods to press the Ctrl, Shift, and Alt buttons with my thumbs. Finally a picture of the K'nexis keyboard in front of the greatest text editor in the world.
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