It is a real keyboard, but it has no phsical keys. It is a display, but it is supposed to be a keyboard.
This keyboard is no longer a keyboard under the traditional definition. Keys are showed on a touch screen display which can also display images and videos by programming. This is a wonderful and crazy stuff.
Check out the following video, you’ll learn what we are talking about:
This latest patent held by Microsoft, featured a multi-touch virtual keyboard design, solved the issue that user could not really feel and locate the on screen keyboard without looking at it.
The key concept for the virtual computer keyboard technology is that it’s using the multi-touch design to make the on screen virtual keyboard show on the place where your palms are located once you touch the screen. So you can key in anywhere on the screen without knowing where the keys actually are.
Very simple concept but really handy design.
It seems there is going to be a touchscreen war at the end of this decade.
Hare is a video we found on youtube indicated that Microsoft have implemented a kind of Multi-touch tech on its coming OS Windows 7.
Microsoft Surface – Microsoft multitouch computer display
Would physical keyboards survive for another decade?
Via: the original news on cnet
This is the ultimate weapon against Trojans/Password sniffers/Password thief as you don’t need to actually key in anything with your computer keyboard!
Very interesting stuff with Programmable Keys and Word Auto-Complete Features, Fully Customizable!
More screenshots for Hot Virtual Computer Keyboard
And of course as a virtual computer keyboard, you can input anything you like as a professional typist, without any hassle!
It’s ideally to use with your touchscreen devices like Tablet PC, UMPC, Panel PC, Car PC, Touchmonitor, etc.
The latest Version 4.2 released on Aug 2009, $29.95 per licence.
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.
(Image Gallery from informationweek.com)
Product Code: LG-GW620
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
Image from Cult of Mac
Computer keyboard on the screen Snow Leopard is a new fun stuff found by Cult of Mac’s Leander Khaney.
The new Computer Keyboard Viewer app seems to be a part of a touch screen OS, but actually it’s built-in functionality of Snow Leopard. So what do you think of it?
How to activate this on screen computer keyboard viewer?
System Preferences => then Keyboard => Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar => the menu bar at top right, click “Show Keyboard Viewer”
“A Really cool app that comes with Snow Leopard or Mac OS X Leopard Its really nice if you are pretty far from your Keyboard.”
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