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Article: Company lights on keyboard alternative.(about virtual keyboard)
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- Wireless Week
- Article date:
- March 7, 2005
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In the future, pressing the right buttons for full keyboard text messaging may involve pressing no buttons at all.
VKB, a Menlo Park, Calif., maker of optical interfaces and projection displays, pulled the wrapper off its new Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard technology last month. Built and distributed by iTech Dynamic, the cigarette lighter-sized device projects a full-sized, 2dimensional keyboard on any flat service. It likely will retail for between $149 and $199.
This virtual keyboard not only adds function to devices with no keyboard, but also offers an option for use in research and development clean rooms where sanitation requirements may not allow a ...