The keyboard is always an indispensable accessory for office workers as well as students. However, working long hours on the computer will often cause some effects on our bones and joints if we do not adjust the correct posture, especially the wrists, where we often type and rest our hands. However, now you will not need to worry about that problem anymore, a quite useful solution is to use a keyboard armrest. So what is a keyboard armrest, let's find out through the following article.
What is a keyboard armrest?
The keyboard armrest is called “Wrist Rest” which means the armrest area. The armrest does not help you much while you type but it helps you have a more comfortable place to rest your arms while using the computer.
Benefits of using armrests
Besides being a place to rest your hands, a keyboard wrist rest can do more for you. The human wrist is optimized to stay straight, not bent for long periods of time. The ligaments above and below are not designed to bear weight, they are designed to help keep your wrist straight and help your hand return to its natural position to reduce injury, and using a keyboard wrist rest to keep your wrist straight also helps reduce injury due to ligament strain.
What are some of the keyboard wrist rests available on the market?
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Hard armrest
Hard wrist rests are often made of wood, plastic or more luxurious natural stone. This type of wrist rest allows your hand to glide quickly on the surface, suitable for those who often type at a very fast speed with the coolness from the materials it is made of.
However, the main disadvantage of this type of keyboard palm rest also comes from its own characteristics: stiffness. Because it is stiff, this type of keyboard palm rest is not very comfortable for those with weak hands or not used to using palm rests.
Some types of hard armrests for your reference:
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Wooden Armrest
Wood is an extremely suitable material for making mechanical keyboard wrist rests. Wooden wrist rests are very durable and beautiful, and do not get hot like leather. Depending on the quality of the wood and the quality of the workmanship, the price of wooden wrist rests also varies widely, ranging from $15 - $70. Wooden wrist rests are popular because of their customizability, you can easily engrave meaningful words or symbols on the surface to make it more personal.
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Natural Stone Armrest
A corner of the player is the marble armrest. This is considered a high aesthetic armrest line for hard core players. Selected from the most beautiful stone sources in countries famous for natural stones such as Japan, Africa...
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Lacquer Armrest
The most high-end and most selective is the Lacquered Armrest. Each armrest is now not only a simple armrest or decoration on the table but also a luxurious item, a highlight of the desk and a very meaningful gift for relatives who share the same hobby of playing mechanical keyboards. This type of armrest is also very expensive, priced from nearly 2 million and up. Partly because of the elaborate and elaborate manufacturing process, completely by hand and no two are alike. Each armrest is a masterpiece of art.
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Soft armrest
Soft wrist rests are often made from many different materials such as leather, fabric, gel, rubber or more specifically Ultrasuede. Usually this type of keyboard wrist rest gives you a soft feeling when resting your hands, which is exactly what the word "Wrist Rest" means in English. Soft keyboard wrist rests support your hands in a resting state like when resting your hands between paragraphs of text or create a firm hand rest when using a mechanical keyboard on a slightly small table surface, helping your wrists avoid unpleasant sharp table edges.
Soft keyboard wrist rests are also more comfortable as they can be used in many different hand positions and do not require you to position your hands exactly on the wrist rest to work comfortably.
Some soft armrests for your reference:
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Silicon Armrest
Silicon is a synthetic polymer. The bonds in silicon are highly stable. Silicon is heat-resistant and elastic like rubber. The types of armrests therefore also have characteristic elasticity, are also very comfortable to use and hug the wrist, but are easily soiled with colorful patterns and are difficult to wash and clean.
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Ultrasuede armrest
Ultrasuede is a soft material that is popular in leather or faux leather armrests. Ultrasuede was one of the first suede alternatives to appear on the market. Developed in 1970 by Japanese scientist Miyoshi Okamoto, most forms of Ultrasuede are 80% microfiber and 20% polyurethane resin. Unlike animal-based suede, Ultrasuede can be machine washed, and it can be tumble dried.
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Leather Armrest
Genuine leather (natural leather) or also known as tanned leather, genuine leather products are often labeled real leather, genuine leather, genuine leather (cowhide), 100% leather...
Commonly used leathers are buffalo leather, cow leather (shoes, wallets, belts, shirts, etc.), pigskin (wallets) and sheepskin (jackets, gloves). In addition, there are also cowhide, goatskin, horseskin, ostrich skin, and crocodile skin often used for high-end products.
