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Keyboards are easier to manufacture if they're rectangular, but that doesn't mean it's the optimal layout for users. In fact, the best ergonomic keyboards are split so that our hands aren't at awkward angles while typing. Keyboards like the Matias Sculpted Ergonomic Keyboard with both USB-A and USB-C wireless receivers. It can also be used wired, if you prefer. Tech expert Dave Taylor explains the health issues and demonstrates all the features of this latest keyboard from Matias.
Check it out at: https://www.matias.store/
** Note: Keyboard is in pre-sales until May, 2025. **
Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
0:00 Introduction & Ergonomics
1:55 Intro to the Matias Keyboard
3:00 Specs and Details
3:50 Replaces Microsoft Keyboards
4:36 Battery Life & Cables
5:55 Encrypted Connection
7:42 Keyboard In Use
8:30 Price and Conclusions
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this is a remarkably well-engineered
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Wireless ergonomic keyboard let's check
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it
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out Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about keyboards I have a MacBook Pro and
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it has that straight rectangular
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keyboard design and it works pretty darn
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well but the problem is that when we
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humans are using these keyboards our
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risk are like this instead of having
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them be aligned with our arms which are
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naturally coming into the center at
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Angles so for many people this is just
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how you've grown up you've gotten used
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to this over the years your muscles have
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like figured out how to realign the
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tendons and your wrists are all good no
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worries but there are a number of people
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that suffer from things like repetitive
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stress injuries or RSI or carpal tunnel
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syndrome and those relate to the tendons
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in your wrist and again when you have it
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at the wrong angle it can really stress
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out your wrists and it can be quite
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painful I have seen people in tears
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because it hurts so much for them to do
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that tiny movement of touching a key
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because their wrists are so inflamed
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from that motion enter ergonomic design
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now it turns out that a lot of how we
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work tends to be pretty unhealthy for us
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we don't actually design our workspaces
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so that they are at optimal height
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optimal distance that we're sitting at
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the right angle that our arms and our
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wrists are at the right positions and
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everything so there's a field called
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ergonomics and ergonomics is to do with
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how things are designed so that they
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work better with us humans and that's
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what this is this is an ergonomic
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keyboard more specifically
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this is the mathas sculpted ergonomic
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keyboard and it is a remarkable piece of
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engineering first off you can see it's
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really thin in fact let me pop off this
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magnetic stand which you can use to
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raise the front or not but it's
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basically a really thin flat keyboard
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that it's like the Hulk has just said
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let's make it wider and just bent it all
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into this weird shape but now look at
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the angle of my hands as I'm on this
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keyboard and then there's this Palm rest
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so it's really easy to work with and has
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these super wide space bars so you can
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really just zip along and yeah you're
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going to have to reprogram your brain a
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little bit if you're used to everything
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being just that rectangle but having it
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just suddenly separate out once you get
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used to it this is so much faster and
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easier to type with very remarkable now
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let's talk about some of the nuts and
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bolts here so these are scissor switch
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keys with a 2mm travel here's a closeup
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so you can see it doesn't go down a lot
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but honestly this is at least as much as
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your laptop probably does there are 10
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different variations of this keyboard
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from mathas including this one which is
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the US keyboard layout for Macintosh so
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that means that for example here it has
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a command key and then an option key and
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then a control key the PC or Windows
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version is going to have a Windows key
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but they also have language variations
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too so they have us UK French German and
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Nordic language keyboards so whatever
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you prefer to work in they're going to
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have a keyboard for you and of course
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what they're really doing here is
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they're really replacing some beloved
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keyboards from days gone past so there
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used to be something called the
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Microsoft ergonomic keyboard people
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loved that and then that became the
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Microsoft sculpt keyboard and then they
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even had the natural ergonomic 4,000
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keyboard all of these were just super
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popular especially in corporate and it
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and then Microsoft apparently just said
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we don't want to make them anymore so
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they went away so what they did at
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Matias is they said let's take that
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keyboard design as our starting point
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but let's make some tweaks and changes
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to actually improve on it so this one
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has a thicker Palm rest so that's nice
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and it had is rechargeable so it's
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running off of batteries and it has a
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threeyear battery life and when you are
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ready to charge it there's USBC here and
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it comes with a USBC to USBC cable which
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can double as it being a wired keyboard
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so if you don't want to fuss with
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wireless at all you can just plug it in
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and plug it into whatever device you
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want and just immediately start typing
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it's a keyboard no drivers no special
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anything but where this gets really
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remarkable is they also have wireless
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receivers so that's the usba wireless
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receiver you can see it's pretty darn
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tiny but where they really get bonus
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points is this USBC what they call their
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Nano receiver this is patent pending and
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it is so small that when I plug it into
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to my MacBook
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Pro it is so flush that I can just leave
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it in there all the time assuming I can
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plug it in at all hold on it's it goes
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in it's just there we go it was just an
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odd angle but you can see it is so
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streamlined that you just leave it in
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and don't even think about it and then
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this you can turn on and off with the
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button right here in the
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middle and that's it it's literally and
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immediately ready to go as soon as you
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plug those in and here's what's really
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cool using this wirelessly with either
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of the two receivers it's also using
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128bit AES 128 encryption so the
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information from the keyboard to this
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device and onto your computer is
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encrypted and that's true across all
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their different variations so this means
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if the one of the things that corporate
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it says or if you're at government work
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they say oh you can't use wireless
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keyboards because someone might sniff
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that data packet well that would be bad
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but this is all encrypted so that's all
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safe really cool and there's even
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programmable Keys you can actually
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program these keys with these rather
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complicated sequences so you don't need
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an app or anything but you can remap
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some of the things if you really want
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them to do something different and it's
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again a really amazing piece of
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engineering now Dimensions wise it is
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15.3 in by 9 in by about 2 in raised off
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the surface of the
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table and it's 1.5 lbs it's really super
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light and as you saw at the beginning it
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does have a stand that is just with
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magnets easy as that and when you put
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that on then you're going to change the
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angle of the keyboard again I actually
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prefer having it without that but you
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know if you're doing this because you're
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trying to get your wrist to feel good
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and you're trying to not be all stressed
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out and by the way your shoulders also
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you want to loosen those up if you're
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spending a lot of time typing but this
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is super comfortable and if I just open
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up my computer and unlock it then I'm
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ready to go
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so you can't see what I'm typing but you
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can hear and it's really comfortable now
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I have to admit I'm so used to those
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rectangular keyboards that the ergonomic
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design is going to take me a little bit
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of getting used to but this is a really
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sweet keyboard and the more you spend
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time typing the more something like this
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is going to be a huge win so that's what
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I got here's a closeup of the keyboard
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layout so you can sort of see how
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everything's laid out it's a beautiful
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keyboard if you're looking for a
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different way to type and a different
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kind of keyboard this might be a solid
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option
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you found this of value excellent this
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is the Matias sculpted ergonomic
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keyboard in 10 different variations This
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Is Us Mac FK
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413d it comes out in May of 2025 I'm a
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little ahead of the game here and it's
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$99 at Mata s. store this is a winner if
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you're looking for a better keyboard or
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you're just noticing that your wrists
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and hands and even your arms and
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shoulders are just achy after a couple
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hours at the computer keyboard this will
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change all of that and better to do it
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when it's just a little twinge than when
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it's something where you feel like you
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got to go to the doctor so that's what I
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got hope this was a value and I hope to
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catch you in my next video
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