14 DAY TRIAL // ...For over 130 years, QWERTY keyboards were imposed as an international standard, both for computers and new generation mobile devices.
New Standard Keyboards from Santa Maria, California announced a new type of keyboard that promises a friendly interaction with the user and ease of use by any type of user. The new keyboard is alphabetically ordered and has only 53 keys, unlike the QWERTY design.
The QWERTY standard appeared in 1873, for the first commercial typewriting machine. Funny or not, QWERTY was in fact developed for preventing the typer of jamming the keys. And now, we are stuck on this standard. Although the keys of a keyboard for computers can be arranged in any order, QWERTY was a revolutionary model at the time it was launched, more than 100 years ago. The Californian Company dares to strike against the current design and directly competes with the QWERTY design.
The 53 keys keyboards, based on the alphabetic model, has a USB support and it's compatible with all the IBM (PCs) systems. The New Standard Keyboard wants to be the response to the problems of QWERTY keyboards, according to the manufacturing company. The design of the New Standard Keyboard was developed by John Parkinson, an electrical engineer, which has also a degree in psychology and ergonomics.
The keys of the new keyboard are alphabetically arranged for easing the learning and searching process, also making it easy for those who switch to the new keyboard. The new keys are very easy to remember and also fast to write with, the producers claim.
The major advantages brought by the New Standard Keyboard are the alphabetical keys alignment that offers a good writing position, the color codes for each letter group and the arrows and the shift buttons central position for a one hand letter capitalizing. Also, the new keyboard has small dimensions, because of the reduced key number, allowing the mouse to be sat right next to it.