TEXTILE KEYBOARD
November 1st, 2001
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE BRITISH company ElekSen, (formerly ElectroTextiles), is gearing up for a New Year launch of a product that will greatly widen the use of small electronic devices like mobile phones and personal digital assistants,(PDA's), through the use of a portable standard plug-in keyboard. Existing mobile devices are too small to use conventional keyboards and typing on phone keypads is a picky business: for instance you have to press the "7" key four times to get the letter "s," while typing the word "difficult" requires 22 keystrokes compared to nine on a ...
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