Computer Virtual Keyboard – Wireless (Bluetooth) Laser Keyboard

October 3rd, 2009 - 

computer keyboard bluetooth laser virtual keyboard

Check out this cool gadget, the following video shows a virtual computer keyboard created on a flat surface by laser beam out from a small laser generator device.

The virtual computer laser keyboard is a standard full size QWERTY computer keyboard, the laser generator device would get feedback by the press of your finger on the keys, combining with the bluetooth wireless technology and mobile data transfer interface, hence it’ll be possible to achieve the ubiquitous input solution.

computer keyboard bluetooth laser virtual keyboard

It’s light weight as the whole station with laser generator is just 3.5 inches tall. With the Bluetooth connectivity, it’s easy to pair with your mobile device via Bluetooth interface. And it’s also good to use with your laptop, extend your laptop keyboard to a full size standard one.

You may wonder how it works, the laser keyboard manufacturer website will give you the answer.

The only problem with the cool laser keyboard is similar to the issue of using a touchscreen keyboard, you couldn’t actually feel where the keys are while you couldn’t touch some real keys.

This laser computer keyboard, with a bit sci-fi style, sells for $149.99, you can buy one from virtual-laser-keyboard.com.

computer keyboard bluetooth laser virtual keyboard

Physical Keyboard and Windows XP on the Phone – xpPhone

September 18th, 2009 - 

Every day we see tons of new products like this launched that reminds what an instant world of today we are living.

A sliding QWERTY computer keyboard, Windows XP, a netbook? No, it’s a mobile phone! But it’s more likely to define as a UMPC.

This mobile device called xpPhone was introduced to us as ITG launched its new official webpage.

It just seems too powerful to be true as it would be released with a slider keyboard, 4.8-inch touchscreen, GPS, an unspecified AMD Super Mobile CPU, a wide range of SSD and HDD selections, 512MB-1GB RAM, WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, and most importantly runs a full-blown copy of Windows XP!

What I can say is that the mobile spec is insane if it’s proved to be true, it’ll be the most powerful mobile in the market.

As you may notice on their website, it’ll be able to pre-order one of these beasts online with an unknown price.

Click the following play button to play the video of ITG xpPhone:

A physical keyboard on iPhone – iTwinge

September 18th, 2009 - 

physical keyboard on iPhone - iTwinge

No keyboard but touchscreen, that’s how Apple designed iPhone. If you are an iPhone fan, you may never think that one day the way you use iPhone could be like use a blackberry. But this small little thing called iTwinge gives it the availability to put a physical keyboard on iPhone and use it like a blackberry.

Though it’s a good idea and very handy to type with a typical QWERTY for long emails/text/blogs, it has some design defects such like power consumption directly from iPhone,  wouldn’t be able to use when flip the iPhone over, too fat to be a attachment, etc.

According to the manufacturer, it can improve the typing speed by 30% -40% and also reduce the typing errors by 70% -80% for a common user.

Anyway, a good try to attach physical keyboard to iPhone to make it easier to type on it for some people. With US$29.99, you can get one from mobilemechatronics.com.

keyboard on iPhone - iTwinge
image credit mobilemechatronics.com

Keyboard(QWETRTY) with touchscreen – LG Android Smartphone Preview!

September 15th, 2009 - 

Computer keyboards are always our topics, but we exited to find so many great keyboard related news over the Internet.

Here goes one for smartphone. Google’s Android, touchscreen, smartphone with traditional QWETRTY keyboard, what could you expect more?

This LG-GW620 smartphone is one of the latest products introduced by LG electronics, powered by Google Android mobile OS. Good to hear some more companies to join to support the android mobile operating system.

LG-GW620
(Image Gallery from informationweek.com)
Product Code: LG-GW620

LG-GW620 product features:

  • 3″ touchscreen
  • A sliding integrated QWERTY keyboard with 5 rows
  • And as most of the smart phones, it’s social networking ready
  • Could be reloaded with Gmail, Google Maps (possibly, not certain)
  • Ability to log into the Android Market for new mobile applications

The Android-powered handset could be available after September in Europe first, price unknown.

It seemed Google Android is attracting more handset manufacturer, it’s expected that over 20 smartphones loaded with Google Android will be seen in the market in year 2009, probably before new year, according to Google.

via: informationweek.com