I laugh when I read this because the DataHand was so much better but inefficiently manufactured and badly-priced. Five motions per finger well, macros, and mouse control 20-something years ago.

It was definitely ahead of it's time and it's a shame there's no commercially available product like it today.

The Azeron gaming keypad [1] has a similar design but it's mainly intended for gaming so you'd have to get two of them and do some remapping to use it as a proper keyboard.

I think the lalboard [2] and the other DIY efforts in this thread [3] are probably the closest thing to a modern DataHand right now.

Here's someone typing at 120 WPM on a lalboard [4]. It looks so effortless when compared to QWERTY [5].

I do wish we'd start to see some more mass produced DataHand-like designs. I've never used one myself but it does seem like it'd be comfortable to use.

[1] https://www.azeron.eu/

[2] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.800

[3] https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMhOIgrdeE0

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ukh74gJYo