In our daily activities, we often overlook some discoveries
that have given big contribution to the development of modern world. Take for
example, the keyboard layout that we use for accessing TRL, both traditional
keyboard and touch screen. The keyboard layout hasn't changed much since
Christopher Latham Sholes introduced it more than 140 years ago.
Until this moment, QWERTY still becomes the most common and
most effective keyboard layout (Latin letters) in the world. It's widespread
and adopted by various electronic products. Indeed, some inventors have tried
to make new innovations, but they still use QWERTY as the basis.
BeeRaider is described as a keyboard peripheral for 21st
century that's designed especially for data entry. Although the series of keys
are still put on a 'board', BeeRaider doesn't look like a regular keyboard. The
designer team combines the QWERTY design with Radial, so that the buttons form
circular layout. Of course, this circular layout is given not only to emphasize
on the aesthetics and uniqueness aspects.
There are several advantages of this radial design. It has
efficient presentation, only requires logic, ergonomic and solid. Developer
claims that this character is needed to support the portable devices market and
the owners of smartphones, tablets, and notebooks. BeeRaider is also perfect
for the users of regular computer keyboard, it's able to shorten the typing
time, and ultimately enhance the productivity level.
Then what's the problem with the conventional keyboard?
QWERTY is actually presented to solve the mechanisms problem on the typewriter.
When someone is typing too fast, some key-hammers could be stuck. However, it
takes a quite long to remember the position of alpha letters (often used).
In contrast, the adaptation process of BeeRaider usage only
takes 10 to 20 minutes. And furthermore, typing will go smoothly when the
finger muscles and memory have synchronized. The layout itself looks like a
winged circle. The D, H, P, Y letters are considered frequently used, so they
are placed in an accessible area,
followed by O, C, T, S, G, V, U, I, E, F and A.
If you are interested, BeeRaider can be ordered on its
official website (beeraider.com) costing from US $ 104.99.