The resurgence of mechanical keyboards in the past decade has unlocked several possibilities previously thought challenging, or impossible to implement, and ergonomic keyboards squarely fit the bill. They’re a niche within a niche, taking the basic principles of ergonomics followed on a**embly lines and industrial workplaces, and applying them to typing apparatus, hopefully for a more comfortable approach. The vast majority of the ergonomic mechanical keyboards you can buy or build today don’t claim medical benefits or advertise designs based on medical research, but they share a few core concepts that should, in theory, alleviate strain from typing for eight to 10 hours every day.