HP's Gesture based Key
board for kannada
TMCnet.com
March 18, 2006
India Business Insight Via Thomson Dialog
NewsEdge)Hewlett-Packard (HP), a technology solutions provider,
has announced the introduction of a pen-based technology
to record and store Kannada script directly into a computer
without the aid of a conventional keyboard.
HP Labs India of Bangalore developed the
technology called `the gesture-based keyboard (GKB)'.
This can be used as a mouse to capture
signatures, pictures, and visual games.
Without the use of bilingual keyboards,
users are allowed to input the data with a pen. It is easier
for communication for users who do not know English. The
product will be commercially available in Mar 2006. The
cost of the new HP GKB for Kannada is about Rs2,000. HP
will soon launch GKB for Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and Gujarati.
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