Years and years ago, Nostromo put out the n52, which is intended to be a game controller.  It uses keyboard keys and is sculpted for the left hand.  Sadly, since i need to draw with my left hand, i needed something similar for my right hand, which Nostromo has no intention of making.

Also, there don't appear to be any other ergonomic solutions that have the same keypress feel that keyboard keys would have.

So after looking in to the situation a bit more and googling the Nostromo again recently, I found this neat gadget from Ergodex also listed on Nostromo's Wikipedia page.



The unit is $150 USD - cheaper on some of their associated resellers.  I ordered mine off ThinkGeek on Sunday and received it today via DHL. 

The whole unit is about 15" wide by 10" tall, and accesses your computer via USB.  It comes with 25 keys, with the capability of accepting up to 50 unique keys in total (more keys can be purchased seperately).  Realistically though, for my uses, I only need about 10. 

The keys are coated on the bottom with the same sort of adhesive used on lint rollers - so they stick to clean surfaces and can be washed to reactivate the stickiness if need be.



Hopefully this will help with my hotkeying problems. I hate having to run my hands all over the keyboard in search of the photoshop tool i want :/