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The BAT and the TWIDDLER I tried two one handed keyboards. One was the TWIDDLER and the other was the BAT. Neither worked for me. The best thing for someone like me would be a voice recognition system that wasn't so sensitive like DRAGON DICTATE was. That system was much too sensitive to mispronounced words; it was just too difficult to train to my voice or my speech and it was way too complex especially for someone with a brain injury.The TWIDDLER made by HandyKey is a good device if you don't mind learning to play it like a GUITAR. One must learn the combinations of "CHORDS" or combinations of key strokes to push in order to type just one character, and that was the only drawback to it. That you had to push a combination of keys to just get only a single character to type. Now it's something I feel I could have learned, but, I type just fine I decided with one finger, so why bother learning something as difficult as that. Now I can see where if one were blind and couldn't see well enough to even hunt & peck with one finger it might be useful, but I'm not. The TWIDDLER can be used as a mouse, but it is too difficult to use, especially when I'M used to my TRACKBALL. Think carefully before you order a TWIDDLER. The HandyKey Corp. will not allow you to return it under any circumstance, and chances are that if you have any mental or physical impairment, you will not be able to use the TWIDDLER. If you're not brain injured, I don't know why you're reading this. The BAT by InfoGrip also requires you to learn chords, but they didn't look like they were as hard to learn as the TWIDDLER, but I don't really know, because I never got it to work for me. So I ask HOW CAN I REVIEW SOMETHING I NEVER USED? Well, I can't so I won't you all fellow brain injured types will just have to try it. Besides, it wasn't what I wanted because it wasn't handheld and that's what I needed the most. I was trying to get away from a table top keyboard and since you had to mount it on a table or since it laid flat on a table I probably wouldn't have used it since I can't get my right hand to punch keys anyways it sort of defeated the purpose. I was looking for some device to use where I could touch type and that wouldn't have done it since I'D still have to look at the keyboard to make certain I was punching the correct keys. I do remember though it was very difficult to get working properly, but, my computer crashed about the same time that I hooked it up. And liking new things as I do, I thought it caused my computer to crash so in a sense if it really did cause my computer to crash, then I should be happy because I got an even better computer out of the deal:>))}}. Although the BAT wasn't for me, at least InfoGrip allowed me to return it, so I recommend that if you don't believe me, and want to try a one hand keyboard, you should try the BAT before the TWIDDLER. If you have specific questions about one handed keyboards, please email me. You never know, I might know the answer. |