Half Keyboards
from the different dept
As people try to figure out better input devices for PDAs and cell phones, they tend to go with some well known solutions: smaller keyboards, touchscreens, and even voice recognition. Well, here's a slightly different idea. It is a smaller keyboard, but it's not that the keys are smaller, but there are fewer of them. It's called the "Half Keyboard" for obvious reasons, and apparently half of the letters of the alphabet have to be typed while holding the space bar. I'm not convinced that this is really that elegant of a solution and sounds more annoying to me than anything else. Also, the estimated price of $250 is a bit steep if they really want to get this thing out to market. There already are fold up keyboards for palm devices that are much cheaper.
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