keyboard

UK firm rolls out fabric keyboard

News A UK company is targeting mobile professionals with a high-tech fabric keyboard that can be used with PDAs and smart phones. Eleksen, which is based at Pinewood Studios, launched the Wireless Fabric Keyboard on Monday.

18 July 2006, 9:49

Apple patents touch-screen keyboard

News Apple has filed patents for a 'smart' touch-screen virtual keyboard and a two-way screen and technology that enables an iPod and host device to wirelessly operate as one. One recently published patent covers a new method for "activating virtual...

2 May 2006, 10:30

Photos: Microsoft keyboard and mouse for Macs

News The Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac -- an Apple-optimised keyboard and mouse -- is expected to be available this summer. Among the features of Microsoft's Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac are a magnifier on the mouse (top left), a zoom slider on the...

1 June 2006, 9:42

What not to eat -- over your keyboard

News The likelihood of the food becoming attached to or inserted into the keyboard Whether it's merely snacking to help pass the time or voraciously devouring lunch while trying to restore the chief executive's files we inadvertently deleted, we all eat...

15 March 2006, 10:00

A fold-up keyboard for Origami

News Microsoft has revealed it will be working with a UK-based peripherals company to make a fabric-based keyboard available for its Origami ultra-mobile PC device. The keyboards are made of a special conductive fabric that allows a user to easily enter...

13 March 2006, 10:22

Behold the customisable keyboard

News Game fans like to moan about the standard QWERTY keyboard layout. You can, for example, assign the keys sets of macros for complex and repetitive software commands in any application that uses a keyboard for input.

27 June 2005, 11:29

High-tech keyboard takes cue from Etch-a-Sketch

News Jeff Pierce, from Georgia Tech's college of computing, for example, talked about how such devices can take over nearby resources, such as a laptop keyboard or a desktop monitor. IBM has come up with an experimental keyboard system that lets users...

12 July 2005, 9:48

NHS develops bug-busting keyboard

News Researchers at a London teaching hospital have come up with a "clean" keyboard that could help in the fight against hospital bugs, including the one responsible for the deaths of hundreds of patients.

3 November 2006, 9:36

News.blog: Mouse-and-Qwerty-keyboard combo

News If, as so many of us do, you spend much of your day in front of a PC, you are likely to move your hand from mouse to keyboard countless times during a given stint at the computer. The Combimouse aims to eliminate the need for that back-and-forth by...

18 May 2006, 10:53

Microsoft invents new mobile keyboard

News It also turns up Tower Records and The Stinking Rose, a local restaurant, but punching in those four letters took less time on a handheld keyboard than the full formal query on a mobile phone keypad. Naturally, one of the primary concerns is how to...

4 May 2006, 10:11

News.blog: Can Bill Gates kill the mouse and keyboard?

News It wasn't exactly Minority Report, but Bill Gates' technology demonstration at Microsoft's CEO Summit on Wednesday may be remembered years from now as a harbinger of the end for the keyboard and mouse era.

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15 May 2008, 10:29

News.blog: Apple sued over iPhone keyboard

News An outfit called SP Technologies has sued Apple over the touchscreen keyboard at the heart of the iPhone, claiming Apple is infringing on a patent held by SP Technologies for a similar keyboard. AppleInsider dug up the SP patent filing from 2000...

7 August 2007, 9:53

News.blog: iMac to get new keyboard?

News AppleInsider is reporting that along with new redesigned iMacs, Apple will introduce a keyboard design already in place on its Macbooks to customers that prefer the all-in-one design. Now that the iPhone launch is out of the way, many Apple...

10 July 2007, 10:48

Keyboard not carpal culprit, study says

News Your wrists may hurt after a long day at the computer, but your ailment isn't likely to be carpal tunnel syndrome. Contrary to popular belief, heavy computer use -- up to seven hours a day -- does not increase the risk that a person will develop...

15 December 2005, 8:40

BlackBerry avoiding touchscreen bandwagon

News The new BlackBerry Bold may have been touted as an 'iPhone killer' despite its use of the familiar Qwerty keyboard, but manufacturer RIM is refusing to be drawn on rumours that a touchscreen BlackBerry is in the offing.

Tags: keyboard, iphone, blackberry, flip

15 May 2008, 9:37