Word: keyboards
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...Horn's piece "God and the CS Student" (Opinion, Feb. 17) discusses RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury). Harvard has a number of resources available to students dealing with this problem. Briefly, if a student experiences pain or numbness in his or her hand, wrist or arm while using a computer keyboard, the student should stop typing, and see a primary care physician at the University Health Services...
...specifically for kiddie consumers, which goes for $650. NetSchools, a company based in Mountain View, Calif., started up last year to sell one product: a $1,600 portable computer custom-built for students that comes with an infrared connection to the school's computer network, a water-resistant keyboard and a built-in security device. That's an expense still too great for many cash-strapped districts. "Schools that bought into the earlier generation of technology are stuck," says Cuban. "The capital investment in desktops makes it difficult to buy this new thing called laptops." Harvard's Martha Stone Wiske...
...ailment, whose effects range from soreness and discomfort during extensive manual activity to permanent musculoskeletal damage to the hands, is difficult to explain. Ostensible caused include typing too much in uncomfortable positions, especially without taking breaks. Because of the role of Keyboarding in RSI, computer-science students run the highest risk. Yet for some reason, the lack of ergonomic keyboard equipment does not seem like a satisfying explanation for what has escalated from an annoyance into a bona fide plague. Why have so many students been struck by RSI? After thinking about it for quite some time, I realized that...
Angela Ng '99 followed, with a series of Chinese folk songs. She was accompanied by Wilson B. Chwang '01 on the electric keyboard...
...child..." Simon was preparing the mix for a song from The Capeman, his new musical that recounts a bloody tabloid crime from the 1950s, explores questions of guilt and redemption and introduces a rich dose of Latin rhythms and doo-wop music to Broadway. One riff from the electric keyboard caused him to make a face. "It's too synthy, too 'woo-woo.'" he said. "Have you got some nice strings?" Another muddy spot he wanted rerecorded: "The piano's too busy. You lose the lyrics." Putting the finishing touches on the album Songs from The Capeman, being readied...