Your might be wondering why you should spend so much money in buying a so called ergonomic computer keyboard rather than straight flat standard computer keyboard that cause you a lot less money. Well, sometimes shopping for a computer keyboard is equal to shopping for a new car. Mostly, you don’t know how crappy your car / computer keyboard is until you try out a better car or ergonomic computer keyboard. There are couple of reasons why you should buy ergonomic computer keyboard instead of straight standard keyboard if you have to work all the time using your computer in the office or at home.

First of all is the result of research won’t lie. Over the past few years, there are many ergonomic scientists or engineers have been working together to analyze and study how human operates the computer keyboards and possible hurts that human got after typing on computer keyboard for long time. Because of this research and study, these specialists have come out a special design computer keyboard that they think can maximize productivity by minimizing operator fatigue and discomfort. For example, Microsoft has her own group of ergonomic scientists in researching and developing her line of ergonomic computer keyboards and mouse products that first to be used on Microsoft employees and see how they feel about the computer keyboards and mouse, then the scientists and engineers will make improvements depend on users’ comments. Hence, ergonomic keyboards are the result of hundreds or thousands of hours of research and study on how human operates computer keyboard and what can be done to create a better computer keyboard for all of us to use.

Secondly, you got to believe that your hands are not flat. When you are typing on a regular standard keyboard, you have to watch carefully how your hands are positioning in order for you to type on the standard keyboard. You will notice that, you have to bend your both your right and left hands a little bit and make them sit on the middle on the computer keyboard. Believe it or not, if you have positioning your hands like that for quite a while, your shoulders going to get hurt. Hence, this is why ergonomic computer keyboard is invented. Ergonomic computer keyboard allows you to lay your hands comfortably on it without you have to bend your hands to fit into the keyboard instead the computer keyboard is designed to fix your hands.