HP India's gesture "keyboard" for pen
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engadget.com
March 17, 2006
Those of us working with the Roman alphabet
forget how spoiled we are with our QWERTY keyboards, even
if they were originally designed to slow us down. People
using non-Roman characters never forget that these keyboards
weren't designed for them, and have spent decades searching
for alternatives. The latest, developed by HP Labs India,
is the gesture-based keyboard, which is actually a pen tablet
that uses a stroke-based system to recognize characters
in non-Roman languages. It was designed specifically to
deal with languages in use in the subcontinent, such as
Tamil and Kannada, but has potential for other Asian languages
as well. The system was designed to be rugged, and to be
usable by people with no prior experience with keyboards
or the Roman alphabet. HP expects to license the technology
to a third-party manufacturer for commercialization.
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