Previously, on this blog…
We’re back in a longer dark winter. The Incase revival of Microsoft’s superbly designed keyboards is itself in need of a revival. Because I’m so intelligent, of course I stockpiled 8 of these at $120 each and have them in my garage… just kidding. I was too dumb to stockpile Microsoft spares and, apparently, also too dumb to stockpile Incase spares. I had high hopes for the Kinesis mWave, which looks almost exactly like the Sculpt but is tilted at a different angle. It’s probably a higher quality product, actually, but my wrists don’t like the different angle and the keys that will last for 10 years require more travel/force than the original Microsoft-spec keys that last for 1-2 years. Microsoft does have a design patent on the Sculpt, but I don’t see what would have stopped Kinesis from using the same angle and offering it with “easy-push” Sculpt-style keys as an option (what has been learned about human anatomy and repetitive strain injury since 2013? Kinesis doesn’t have more money or smarter people than Microsoft had in 2013, right?).
Nobody in the U.S. seems to have even one of these, but an eBay seller rated 100% by 26,000+ users has access to at least dozens and the keyboard layout is supposedly the same as the U.S. version (the picture in their listing is the same, at any rate). Here’s the ad:
The $212 price isn’t too horrific considering that I paid $120 to Amazon for the product in January 2026 when it was still in production. The shipping cost to the U.S. is kind of painful, but it’s cheaper than being disabled from working. If your wrists and tendons love the Sculpt keyboard, I recommend going to eBay right now and grabbing this deal with both hands, so to speak.
What if you don’t want to pay $300-ish for a keyboard? The Lenovo Go is, I think, the closest thing to the original Microsoft Sculpt design (patent below). It’s only about $73. I remember not being completely converted to the Lenovo religion, though, in early 2024 when I tried it. I can’t remember what I didn’t love about it. The current version is improved with a one-key shortcut to Microsoft Copilot! (“improves your working efficiency”). What I would like to see is a keyboard with a one-key shortcut to Microsoft Teams. And then I would try to get Donald Trump to order that everyone at Incase who was involved in the decision to cancel this keyboard be sentenced to spend the rest of their working lives pressing the Teams button and actually using Teams.
