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News
Issue #2002 - 13
(April 2002)
(Updated Apr.
3, 2002)
TECHNOLOGY
Israeli Company Transforms the
Traditional Keyboard
What component of the
computing system has not changed in the last twenty years? While
processors, operating systems and screens have come and gone, only
the keyboard has basically remained unchanged.
For the founders of VKB Inc., this realization was the impetus
behind the creation of the virtual keyboard.
Using laser technology, a bright red image of a keyboard is
projected onto a flat surface. As the user taps the image of the
keys, just as if they were using a conventional keyboard, the
virtual keyboard’s built-in detection technology tracks their
movements. The text then appears on the screen of their mobile
phone, PDA or tablet PC.
The Israeli company plans to license the technology to OEMs as
well as to expand its use to transform other devices such as the
mouse or phone keypads or on-off switches into virtual entities.
(Sources InformationWeek and Ananova)
Mobileinfo Comments & Advisory: Another
interesting attempt to replace the keyboard on handheld devices.
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forward-looking statements. Readers should take appropriate caution in
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