More specifically, something akin to this:
http://www.chordite.com<p>I know about the twiddler, but it's rather expensive for something I'd mostly just play around with, and it doesn't really look too ergonomic with all those buttons, almost seeming to miss the point of a chorded keyboard...<p>I don't have any RSI-related problems (yet), but I'd like to have an option in regards to typing with one hand and not being constrained to a desk for longer texts.<p>Has anyone built a chorded keyboard? If so, how has that panned out for you?
tl;dr: Ever used one of those "new mouse" feature test / demo applications? If you did it with a 5-button mouse, you've already figured out how to make your own one-handed chording keyboard. Also, the patent(s) are probably unenforceable.<p>---<p>I just quickly did this to visualize the poll responses.<p><a href="https://www.meta-chart.com/share/how-much-would-people-pay-for-chordite" rel="nofollow">https://www.meta-chart.com/share/how-much-would-people-pay-f...</a><p>Personally my bid is in the $50 slice, because I see this as a deconstructed / reconfigured 5-button mouse without the laser (or ball if you are more of a retro sort). Even a regular 5-button mouse driver would be able to read it correctly without modification to the code - you are only concerned with interpreting the input and writing the output at this point.<p>In a pinch, and for dev purposes, you could probably get away with experimenting just by putting tape over the laser sensor (or remove the ball if you're that retro guy) and then writing the interpreting chord combinations until you decide build it into a prettier, and less likely to give you CTS, form factor.<p>---<p>As to the patent, lest we forget devices like this one have existed for decades already using the one-handed-gravity claim extensively: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Qh5bHtHMY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Qh5bHtHMY</a><p>There probably is some novelty in what he's come up with, but absolutely everything about it appears to have prior art. Unless my implementation idea is missing something.<p>Maybe he could patent some parts of the form. But then I think every company working in VR would immediately take issue. A VR paddle with 5 keys is exactly this guy's patent(s) if you ignore all the bells and whistles like spacial sensors. A wireless 5-button mouse already squashes that part of the patent.<p>> He's invented a 5-button mouse without a sense of direction!<p>I'm certainly open to discussion on this because I think OP has a really interesting question, and I'm a little surprised that there is so little commercial attention. Is there a chording machine monopoly not yet mentioned here?