Keyboard Brands and Links

How to choose a computer keyboard

In addition to this report on keyboards, ConsumerSearch also has a related report on computer mice.

"Selecting a Keyboard," an article by Sean Chen, Alan Hedge and Dwight Owsen in The CPA Journal, discusses ergonomic keyboards.

PC World's "Compute in Comfort" discusses what it means for a product to be ergonomic; editors Steve Manes and Angela Gunn battle it out.

ConsumerGuide.com has a relatively up-to-date basic "Keyboard and Mouse Buying Guide."

To learn more about how your keyboard works and to review terminology such as "tactile," look to ConsumerGuide.com's "How Computer Keyboards Work."

Slate.com has a column about Google's decision to leave out the caps lock key from its CR-48 notebook.

Fosfor Gadgets has an article profiling "The Top 10 Weirdest Keyboards Ever." It's an interesting look at alternative keyboard designs that range from pure novelty to quite useful. Some unusual models include a roll-up keyboard, a portable wrist keyboard and keyboards that look like Rubik's cubes.

Could typing on your keyboard power your next PC or laptop? ExtremeTech discusses the future of piezoelectricity (generating electricity using physical force) in a story on just that topic.

Keyboard brands and websites:

Apple

Das Keyboard

Enermax

Lenovo

Logitech

HP

Kinesis

Microsoft

Razer

Saitek

Steelseries (formerly Ideazon)