Pointing the way to pain free typing

PCD Maltron is highlighting its finger-friendly keyboard as well as single-hand keyboards, head/mouthstick/ single-finger keyboards and its anti-RSI keyboards at the Safety & Health Expo 2011.

Maltron keyboards are said to help prevent keyboard-induced RSI and enable those stricken by this condition to return to full-time work. The latest addition to the Maltron range of keyboards is the flat 'Finger Friendly' that incorporates features from the Maltron portfolio.

This finger-friendly keyboard offers keys in straight columns but the rows of keys are set to suit the varying lengths of the specific operating fingers. Typically, the column for the longest middle finger is positioned for non-straining access by that finger, a pattern followed for all the fingers on both hands. The home row is highlighted by yellow keys.

The range includes single-handed models that have received orders from Korea, Poland and India, and the mouth-stick keyboard that Maltron believes to be the only keyboard listed in the Office Section of the US State Department's catalogue of items to help people suffering from the Explosive Remnants of War.

A video details a user who has recovered from RSI by using a Maltron keyboard.Hall 1, Stand K2.