Amazing 13 keyboards

The roll-up keyboard

These keyboards feature 104 keys in a standard QWERTY layout, but with a nifty twist of being the most portable keyboard seen to date. Simply roll the unit up when you’re done with it! A great tool for laptop users who miss their full-sized KB when on the road, or LAN party warriors looking to lighten their load.

The virtual laser keyboard

The I-Tech Virtual Keyboard uses a light projection of a full-sized computer keyboard on almost any surface. Used with PDA’s and Smart Phones, the Virtual Keyboard provides a practical way to do e-mail, word processing and spreadsheet tasks, enabling users to leave laptops and computers at home.

The wrist keyboard

Completely sealed, it can operate in the rain and other harsh environments. A curved back provides a secure and comfortable placement on the wrist. The keyboard layout is optimized to provide alphanumeric entry. Carefully positioned arrow keys ease menu-oriented tasks. The WristPC keyboard comes with an optional wrist strap to provide the capability of attaching it to your wrist.

The frogpad

The FrogPad mobile keypad with its innovative 20 full-size key layout optimized around the most frequently used characters sets a new standard in information access with superior portability and ergonomics, global adaptability, rapid learning and ease of use. Its unique patented keystroke algorithms enable it to be used in either a right or left-handed mode and with any international language set.

Maltron 3D Ergonomic Keyboard

These fully ergonomic two handed keyboards fit the shape of hands and the different lengths of fingers to reduce movement and tension.

The Orbitouch Keyboard

The orbiTouch Keyless ergonomic Keyboard creates a keystroke when you slide the two domes into one of their eight respective positions. You type the different characters by sliding the domes to create letters and numbers. The orbiTouch Keyless ergonomic Keyboard also has an integrated mouse, so moving the domes gives you full mouse and keyboard capability!

The Tidy Tippist

The marriage of eating and tipping: the decorative tablecloth, made of felt, contains a textile keyboard. The electronic is woven into a fabric, which finds itself between layers of water resistant felt as sandwich material. The soft felt surface makes it a pleasure for fingers to tip a cozy keyboard.

The SafeType keyboard

This well thought at keyboard will allow you to type in a relaxed position, saving you the pain. All that despite its futurist look. The supplementary keypad allows the user to position the 10-key numeric pad with arrow keys anywhere that is most usable and comfortable. It can be on the left or the right, or even in your lap. We are constantly amazed by the tremendous variation in challenges and how people find solutions for their own problems.

The Twiddler 2

The Twiddler2 is a pocket-sized mouse pointer plus a full-function keyboard in a single unit that fits neatly in either right or left hand. The Twiddler2 plugs into both keyboard and mouse PS/2 ports (USB port with the PS/2 to USB Adapter) on any computer that accepts standard PS/2 mouse and keyboard (or USB input). Combining major innovations in pointer and keyboard technology, the twiddler is designed to bring renewed enjoyment to current computer users and to attract newcomers to the world of personal computing.

The datahand keyboard

The DataHand ergonomic keyboard offers a total of 132 keys (more than even extended flat keyboards) through the use of five key switches clustered around the tips of each of the fingers. With four modes, shifted by the thumbs, hand movement is no longer required to perform keyboard work. Hand support results in the elimination of the major source of muscular-skeletal stress in hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, backs, and necks.

Optimus Keyboard

Each and every key on the Optimus Keyboard is a stand-alone display that shows you exactly what it is controlling at the very moment.

Das Keyboard

Where is the letters? Das keyboard believe with no keys to look at when typing, your brain will adapt and memorize the key position thus increasing typing speed.

AlphaGrip

 

Claimbled to the most comfortable computing device. It is a gaming pad, a keyboard also comes with a mouse trackball.

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Run Portable Ubuntu as Windows Application

Portable Ubuntu

Portable Ubuntu is a Linux distribution, variation of Ubuntu, which will allow you to run Linux within Windows as if it were a program or process. So those who wish may prove what is seen as the free operating system, without the complications of configuring a virtual machine or emulation.
You need only download the installation of Ubuntu Mobile, which holds about 440 MB and when uncompressed requires 1.86 GB of space. Then, just double click the file run_portable_ubuntu.bat, which will be in the root directory in the folder where you unzipped Portable Ubuntu, you can start the distribution.
That is nearly complete, with the menu of Ubuntu and all its component applications, which can add many more just go to Synaptic Package Manager. What is surprising is that its creator says not to use more than 50MB of RAM forUbuntu Mobile as a process, a truly negligible amount by the standards of today, and especially if we think we are running Ubuntu within Windows.
For those who want to try Linux without changing anything about your system (even the boot order is essential to be able to try a Live CD),Ubuntu Mobile is no doubt the best option, since it does not require any configuration.

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Microsoft Surface

You just have to see this, is to beautiful to be true, and I so eager to see this technology in our everyday lifes. Microsoft Surface represents a fundamental change in a the way we interact with digital content. With Surface, we can actually grab data with our hands, and move information between objects with natural gestures and touch. Surface features a 30-inch tabletop display whose unique abilities allow for several people to work independently or simultaneously. All without using a mouse or a keyboard. If you would like to see this beautiful technology in action just go to Microsoft page, and enjoy the experience.

Microsoft Surface - Tabletop Computer. You won't believe this until you see it. It's actually real. No mouse, no keyboards, but you can touch it and guess what . . . it actually feels you. Don't you know what is it? It's Microsoft Surface!!!

 




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Pranav Mistry, the genius behind Sixth Sense

Bangalore: MIT’s Projection Computer System developed by Pranav Mistry will let you write notes on your hand in whatever font you want.

Consider the possibilities. You could go up to any wall and project the book stacks of an immense library larger than the Sun from your stomach (like a Care Bear) and then call any book to your hands with a single, swift gesture (like a falcon).
Then, you could open a blank book in front of you and project the ebook version you have selected onto the empty pages, complete with animated illustrations, appropriate background music, and instant annotations.
You could project the book into your plaintive, open hands, the way a child pretends to read.
In an airplane, you could project a novel onto the seat-back in front of you and read with your arms crossed and one eye shut.
Retrieving information from the Web when you’re on the go can be a challenge. To make it easier, graduate student Pranav Mistry has developed SixthSense, a device that is worn like a pendant and super imposes digital information on the physical world. Unlike previous “augmented reality” systems, Mistry’s consists of in expensive, off-the-shelf hardware. Two cables connect an LED projector and webcam to a Web-enabled mobile phone, but the system can easily be made wireless, says Mistry.
Users control SixthSense with simple hand gestures; putting your fingers and thumbs together to create a picture frame tells the camera to snap a photo, while drawing an @ symbol in the air allows you to check your e-mail. It is also designed to automatically recognize objects and retrieve relevant information: hold up a book, for instance, and the device projects reader ratings from sites like Amazon.com onto its cover. With text-to-speech software and a Bluetooth headset, it can “whisper” the information to you instead.
Remarkably, Mistry developed SixthSense in less than five months, and it costs under $350 to build (not including the phone). Users must currently wear colored “marker s” on their fingers so that the system can track their hand gestures, but he is designing algorithms that will enable the phone to recognize them directly.
Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab
Source: MIT Technology Review
Hailing from Palanpur, which is situated in northern Gujarat, Pranav obtained his bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering from Gujarat University. He then went to IIT Bombay for Master of Design before going to MIT. “Exposure to fields like Design to Technology and from Art to Psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world. I love to see technology from design perspective and vice versa. This vision reflects in almost all of my projects and research work as well. in short, I do what I love and I love what I do,” says Pranav.

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Apple's Cease-and-Desist Letter Wins Tablet Prize

Silicon Valley's ValleyWag offered cash for evidence of Apple, Inc.'s tablet computer, but instead got a cease-and-desist letter from Apple's lawyer. Aha! ValleyWag said, the letter "proves" the tablet exists and sent Apple's lawyer a prize that includes "fabulous" steak knives. But Apple may not think the joke funny, and it could sue.

Always up for tweaking the breathless blogging that passes for technology journalism in Silicon Valley, ValleyWag this week offered to put up some real money if anyone could provide concrete evidence of the tablet computer that most Apple watchers expect CEO Steve Jobs to unveil at a Jan. 27 press happening in San Francisco.
"We've had enough of trying to follow all the speculation around Apple's impending tablet," ValleyWag's Gabriel Snyder wrote in a blog post announcing the Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt. "If you can find the first genuine photos, video or -- the holy grail -- the actual messiah machine itself before then and they're exclusive to us, we'll give you a cash prize." The post offered $10,000 for bona-fide pictures, $20,000 for videos, $50,000 for images of Steve Jobs using the device, and $100,000 "to let us play with it for an hour."
After receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the Silicon Valley law firm of Orrick, Huntington and Sutcliffe, ValleyWag has declared the firm the winner of the contest, saying the letter confirms the existence of the tablet.

Illegal Inducement?
"You call this the 'scavenger hunt,'" but Apple calls it "offering a bounty for the theft of Apple's trade secrets," attorney Michael C. Spillner wrote. "Such an offer is illegal and Apple insists that you immediately discontinue the scavenger hunt."
ValleyWag's tongue-in-cheek response: The letter "is the most concrete evidence (from Apple itself, no less!) yet that there may indeed be a tablet in the works. Granted, it's no photo of Steve Jobs holding his heavenly device himself (prize: $50,000), but we do feel like it merits some kind of reward," Snyder wrote. The site claims it sent Spillner his reward: a DVD of Legally Blonde 2, a $25 Zune Marketplace gift card, and a "fabulous set of steak knives!"
Far from agreeing to suspend the contest, ValleyWag merely admonished people to stay within the boundaries of the law and "use anonymous e-mail addresses! We can't tell Apple who you are if we don't know who you are."
Strict Confidence
That's exactly the sort of thing that Apple's lawyers say is encouragement of illegal behavior: "Apple has maintained the types of information and things you are soliciting -- 'how it'll work, its size, the name, the software,' as well as any further details about the product's appearance, features and physical appearance -- in strict confidence."
Since anyone with knowledge would be under nondisclosure agreements, ValleyWag's offer constitutes inducing a misappropriation of trade secrets in violation of California law, the letter says.
Besides protecting legal interests, does this letter confirm the existence of the tablet? Despite ValleyWag's insistence, it probably doesn't.
The letter doesn't say there is a tablet; it says that ValleyWag is inducing people under legal obligation to keep quiet to spill the beans, which is a violation of law. Regardless of the existence of the tablet, or what happens on Jan. 27, Apple could sue ValleyWag parent Gawker for this behavior unless it stops.
Even so, the letter does seem sensitive to the risk of a leak, even just a few weeks before Apple's planned event. So it may in fact qualify as an indication, but hardly a smoking gun.

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Microsoft New Mouse Devices Announced

Microsoft Unveils BlueTrack Tracking Technology - New Mouse Devices Announced

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the world's most advanced tracking technology, Microsoft BlueTrack Technology, which allows consumers to take their mice anywhere and work with confidence on more surfaces than before.
Microsoft's new proprietary tracking technology combines the width and power of optical technology with the precision of laser tracking to allow consumers to mouse on virtually any surface — from a granite kitchen countertop to the living room carpet. BlueTrack Technology will debut in two new top-of-the-line mice, Microsoft Explorer Mouse and Microsoft Explorer Mini Mouse, available this fall at BestBuy.com and in Best Buy stores.
Microsoft Hardware: History of Leadership
Microsoft Hardware has consistently raised the bar in mouse tracking technology throughout its 26-year history, including the launch of the world's first optical mouse in 1999. The LED light and sensor allowed consumers to mouse on more surfaces with ease, eliminating the old "ball" mouse for good. In 2005, Microsoft introduced High Definition Laser Technology, which allowed mice to work on many surfaces that optical technology did not. But now Microsoft's in-house engineers have taken mouse tracking to the next level, creating an exclusive, groundbreaking technology to advance the way consumers use their computer mice.
"Research shows that people aren't sitting at a desk all day, but they've gone mobile. In fact, 72 percent of PCs sold are notebook PCs, and consumers need a mouse that can go with them anywhere," said Mark DePue, platforms engineering manager at Microsoft and co-inventor of BlueTrack Technology. "BlueTrack Technology excels in areas where optical and laser technologies were falling short. Laser mice, for example, have a difficult time working on some common home surfaces, including granite and marble."
According to David Bohn, senior engineering architect at Microsoft and BlueTrack Technology co-inventor, "Laser technology is also sensitive to dust and dirt accumulation during travel, which can lead to poor tracking performance. With BlueTrack Technology you can rest easier about where your mouse will or won't track — it works just about everywhere, just like you."
Under the Hood
Microsoft's BlueTrack Technology works on more surfaces than both optical and laser mice. The large, blue beam and specular optics architecture, in conjunction with a Microsoft-designed image sensor and proprietary pixel geometry, generates a high-contrast picture of the mousing surface that allows exceptional tracking accuracy. The BlueTrack Technology light beam emanating from the bottom of the mouse is more than four times as large as the average laser beam used in today's mice, enabling reliable mouse tracking even on difficult surfaces such as carpet.
This advanced technology creates a superior, more precise picture of the surface, allowing consumers to use their mouse virtually anywhere. To see a video on the making of BlueTrack Technology and meet the inventors, consumers can visit http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/bluetrack.
Explorer Mouse and Explorer Mini Mouse
BlueTrack Technology will debut in two new high-end Microsoft mouse products this fall — the full-size Explorer Mouse and the smaller Explorer Mini Mouse. These mice pair revolutionary tracking technology with a sophisticated design that brings the mice to life. A chrome trim and blue lighting around the bottom rim of the mouse create a soft glow and set the device apart from anything else on the market. A right-handed, ergonomist-approved design offers hours of comfortable use, and 2.4GHz wireless technology delivers a reliable connection up to 30 feet away. The snap-in minitransceiver offers easy storage and mobility, allowing consumers to take their full-size mouse with them wherever they need it.
The full-size Explorer Mouse features easy recharging with a battery status indicator and a small charging base, while the Explorer Mini Mouse uses two AA batteries.
Availability
The Explorer Mouse with BlueTrack Technology and the Explorer Mini Mouse with BlueTrack Technology will be available at BestBuy.com and Best Buy stores in November for the estimated retail price of $99.95 and $79.95 (U.S.), respectively.
"At Best Buy we offer our customers the latest and greatest in consumer technology," said Steve Guild, senior merchant, computing peripherals at Best Buy. "We are excited to enter into our relationship with Microsoft BlueTrack Technology, as the products truly map to where our customers are using their computers — everywhere."
Both mice will be backed by a worldwide three-year limited hardware warranty from Microsoft.

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Forget Megapixels: Here Comes the Gigapixel Sky Camera

To help Earth’s inhabitants avoid the fate of the dinosaurs and the Clovis people, researchers with the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-Starrs) have developed the world’s largest digital camera, which can capture 1.4 billion pixels, to scan the skies for approaching asteroids or comets. The camera is scheduled to begin its search this month with the Pan-Starrs-1 telescope in Haleakala, Hawaii

Pan-Starrs will repeatedly scan the same portions of the sky to look for changes, such as the supernova discovered during the telescope’s test runs last fall. And if an asteroid is detected hurtling toward Earth Scientists and engineers are still working on ways to use spacecraft to alter its orbit

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LEDs Light Times Square, But Can They Light Your Office?

LEDs Light Times Square, But Can They Light Your Office?

The invention of the bright-white light-emitting diode (LED) in the 1990s marked the beginning of a revolution in lighting. Cheap, long-lasting, and needing little power, bright LEDs are increasingly the light source of choice for flashlights, traffic signs, even the brilliant marquees in places like New York City’s Times Square. They are also used to illuminate the picture in some large-screen TVs. But LEDs still have not made much headway in our homes and offices, where the general lighting provided by incandescents and fluorescents is still superior.

Part of the reason is that individual LEDs are typically quite small; the surface area of the semiconductor material that emits light is only about one square millimeter. As a consequence, a bright LED, of the kind found in a flashlight, might produce 80 lumens (a lumen is a standard measure of how powerful a light source appears). A 100-watt incandescent bulb, in contrast, typically emits about 1,500 lumens. To approach this level of brightness, lighting manufacturers have arranged LEDs in arrays, which is a bulky solution at best. Some have made individual small LEDs as bright as 1,000 lumens, but these are expensive and still function best as spotlights, not as area lighting for a room.
Now Luminus Devices hopes to break into the general lighting realm with its LED PhlatLight. Derived from research the firm’s founders did at MIT, the PhlatLight is a much bigger LED, with a light-emitting area of 12 square milli­meters. A single such LED can generate up to 3,300 lumens. PhlatLights have already been used to backlight large LCD screens, replacing the necessary thousands of LEDs with a few dozen

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