Logitech Cordless Wave Keyboard
Ergonomic keyboards have been around for some time, but they’ve mostly curved upward to accommodate longer middle fingers. Logitech’s new Wave keyboard does the opposite, curving downward to cradle your hands as you type.
The keyboard features three tilt options, which is fantastic. You can lay it down flat or choose to flip down one or both of the stands behind the keyboard, which raise it up a bit — whatever you desire.
Like any Logitech keyboard, it’s ringed with special function buttons, and some of them are enhanced when used in Windows vista. The far left side of the keyboard features just two buttons. The bottom key activates Flip3D in Vista and also opens a small window in XP that lets you choose between open windows. Above it is a zoom button that is actually quite useful for zooming in and out in images or web pages.
The top of the keyboard sports shortcut buttons to the Vista Sidebar (on XP, it opens a webpage for Yahoo Widgets), your pre-selected music player (iTunes, Winamp, WMP), your My Pictures folder, and has media control buttons as well. It’s important to note that all these buttons can be customized using the included Set Point software.
The far right corner sports just two shortcut buttons that open Calculator or put the PC to sleep. Of course, all the F buttons have dual functions as well and can all be customized.
The LX8 Laser cordless mouse is an ambidextrous mouse with soft rubber side grips, five buttons, and a pleasingly comfortable shape. The buttons are standard fare and include right and left click a mouse wheel that clicks and moves left and right, and forward and back buttons on the left and right sides of the mouse. The mouse tracks via laser and has a modest 800dpi.
The USB receiver is the size of a USB key, and it can either be inserted into a USB port or plugged into a USB extension cable that sits on your desktop. We did not experience any performance degradation when plugging it into the back of our PC, so we’d recommend going that route for maximum wirelessness.
Whether it’s innovative is debatable, but it’s certainly comfortable. The package is rounded out by a slick, ambidextrous mouse and a host of features that are quite useful, especially if you’re running Windows Vista.
via digitaltrends
