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December 09, 2005
The one handed milk feeder
While trying to do a number of activities with Madeline at home today I realized that the basic physics of a father preclude feeding a baby from a bottle and typing at the same time. While this may not pose a major health risk to myself I was trying to figure out if a one handed person could feed a baby from a bottle at all. If the one handed pitcher Jim Abbott can be a major league pitcher and have a great fielding glove then people ought to be able to feed a baby with one hand. My solution for now is to lay the baby on a flat surface and feed with the bottle while the baby lies on their back. Unfortunately the only flat surface available to me at my desk is the desk itself and that is both an unsafe place for a baby and in need of a lot of neatening. So I had to stop working with the computer while feeding. I do see the need for one handed keyboards and decided to take a peek at the internet to see if anyone has designed a nice one handed keyboard. I found the following:
How to type with one hand (normal keyboard)
Well it looks like there is already a booming one handed keyboard market so I'll stop prototype development. The other option is just to figure out how to get Madeline to type for me instead of crying for milk. With enough time I think I can get there.
Posted by dhousman at December 9, 2005 01:21 PM