Nyko’s PlayStation 4 Type Pad works well even with my fat thumbs

I never caught on to the thumb-typing technique of our modern text message-obsessed society. My refusal to strengthen typing with my thumbs is that I was convinced, at one point, that the technique was a passing phase born of the Blackberry’s temporary boom in popularity (I got a lot of things wrong that day). Also, my thumbs are about as large as a pair of Polish sausages, forcing me to use more of a hunt n’ peck technique with my pointing finger instead of the dueling thumb war method people with normal hands have adopted.

Yet in the modern console world, where the living room machine resembles an entertainment PC, it would be nice to have a typing solution that is not navigating a slider over an onscreen keyboard. That means … sigh … we need to look toward thumb-typing as a solution. This is where Nyko’s PlayStation 4 Type Pad comes in.