Look again.
More carefully.
In both pics, the total visual height of the hand is about equal, with a slope from the wrist up to the knuckle where the index finger starts. But there's a difference:
In the top pic, the height and upward slope is because the hand is actually angled upwards at the wrist. In the bottom one, the hand is rotated around the axis of the forearm; the "height" is because a hand is wider than it is thick, the visual upward slope not because anything is bent but because the hand widens -- so "width" is vertical(1) in this picture -- from the wrist.
At least that how it looks and feels when I just tried it, empty-handed, on my desk. (Dang, maybe gotta get one of these contraptions?)
But yeah, you're right, as marketing it sucks: One shouldn't be required to either have to look twice and think hard about what one is seeing, or come away with the belief that both are equally un-ergonomic -- but "they've just drawn a straight arrow through an equally contorted hand!" was my first-glance reaction, too.
Then again, it appears they suck at marketing in general: "Vetical"?
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1: Or at least slanted; the forearm in that lower pic doesn't appear to be rotated 90 degrees compared to the upper one, but perhaps around 45. Or maybe it's just photographed from too much of a height.
In both pics, the total visual height of the hand is about equal, with a slope from the wrist up to the knuckle where the index finger starts. But there's a difference:
In the top pic, the height and upward slope is because the hand is actually angled upwards at the wrist. In the bottom one, the hand is rotated around the axis of the forearm; the "height" is because a hand is wider than it is thick, the visual upward slope not because anything is bent but because the hand widens -- so "width" is vertical(1) in this picture -- from the wrist.
At least that how it looks and feels when I just tried it, empty-handed, on my desk. (Dang, maybe gotta get one of these contraptions?)
But yeah, you're right, as marketing it sucks: One shouldn't be required to either have to look twice and think hard about what one is seeing, or come away with the belief that both are equally un-ergonomic -- but "they've just drawn a straight arrow through an equally contorted hand!" was my first-glance reaction, too.
Then again, it appears they suck at marketing in general: "Vetical"?
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1: Or at least slanted; the forearm in that lower pic doesn't appear to be rotated 90 degrees compared to the upper one, but perhaps around 45. Or maybe it's just photographed from too much of a height.
