Article: Going beyond the alphabet: NEW HP KEYBOARD FREES USER FROM WESTERN MODEL.

Byline: Nicole C. Wong

Apr. 7--Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a computer keyboard pad that should make typing tasks like Web browsing easier for millions of people in India who read and write languages that don't translate well into a Western alphabet. The same approach could make personal computers more attractive to millions of other people all over the world whose languages use scripts, rather than the Roman alphabet common in Western culture. HP's "gesture keyboard" -- a digitized pen and pad packaged with handwriting-recognition software -- allows people to quickly jot down words in Hindi script on the digitized pad that transmits them to a desktop ...

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