Home Row Computing ideas / keyboards with fn layers?

[ben]

I'm hoping to recreate a home row friendly function key layout similar to HHKB or KBC Poker for my full size keyboard.

Are there any keyboards (or small laptops) with especially great layouts I might want to steal ideas from?

So far I've just got a short list of keyboards to research:

KBC Poker
Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro
Noppoo Choc mini
Mini Guru
Matias Optimizer

Some inspiration:
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/home-row-computing

[hoggy]

Sounds like fun. More keyboards should have some sort of chorded functionality on the home row.

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=10874&page=5...A shameless plug to a previous layout on one of my Access 'boards. It's a bit basic, and copied in part from the Matias.

There's a good article on the Matias layout by hyperlinked - http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:9140.

[sixty]

The Matias Optimizer looks like some seriously crazy stuff. I kinda think thats way overkill. Had not seen this before...

[intealls]

I've been using a MiniGuru-like setup the past couple of months (arrow keys/home, end, del), but with curly braces, parenthesis etc (ordinary java/C symbols) accessible with the left hand. I can't imagine using a keyboard without these extra bindings anymore (especially since the stock Swedish layout is heinously stupid).

[Pylon]

I've always thought of mapping Caps Lock to Fn and WASD to arrow keys, and perhaps home/end on Q and E. Haven't tried it though.