Hand or keyboard
HandyKey – Twiddler
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 a USB port or the keyboard and mouse PS/2 ports. Twiddler won the Wearable Central Best of ‘99 Award for Best Input Device.
L3 Systems – WristPC Keyboard
L3 Systems has developed the WristPC Keyboard for portable and wearable computer applications. The WristPC is a rugged QWERTY keyboard with a standard PC keyboard interface. The housing is a black anodized aluminum. Completely sealed, it can operate in the rain and other harsh environments.
WearClam: A Wearable Input Interface
The WearClam is an wearable Input device, developed for those situations where you need keyboard-like input nearly all the time. It is an ergonomic ring which resembles a real Clam’s shape and as such it could be considered as a wearable interface for a wearable computer.
Senseboard Virtual Keyboard
Senseboard ™ is a virtual keyboard, designed for the millions of mobile computer users, struggling with their tiny or nonexistent keyboards when trying to communicate or type. The VK hand mounted devices allow the user to type on any surface as if it were a keyboard. Sensors in the units measure the finger movements and artificial intelligence and a language processor determine appropriate keystrokes or mouse movements
Fitaly One-Finger Keyboard
This “keyboard” is optimized for entry with a single finger or with a pen, as is the case on a pen computer or a computer with a touchscreen. The Fitaly One-Finger Keyboard minimizes pen or finger travel as well as hand travel.
Thumbscript Input Devices
Thumbscript (TM) is a patented universal text entry system for mobile people and devices. Equally at home with Pen based devices like the Palm Pilot and keypad devices like your telephone or TV controller, Thumbscript offers users a single system that is simple, inexpensive to implement and easy to use because it is visual.
Kord Interface Technology
Kord (R) Interface Technology is a suite of hardware and software that creates “an ambidextrous, chordic Human Machine Interface (HMI), suitable for any computing device”
FrogPad Keyboard
FrogPad� is a one-handed keyboard to be used with USB Keyboard compatible PDA’s, Pocket PCs, Tablet and Wearable PC’s, and other mobile applications, such as portable laptops, which utilizes the flexibility and ease of one-handed functionality and the performance of an efficient keyboard. Now available with Bluetooth interface.
IN10DID – Input Nomenclature Ten Digit Interface
The Input Nomenclature Ten Digit Interface Device is a 21st Century solution to reduce the size and complexity of the mobile keyboard. Ten simple keys, one for each finger, replace the QWERTY model to provide all standard input options so that you can type without moving your hands. The X-SES keyboard hangs from a necklace and can be operated with your right hand, your left hand or with both hands. This allows for convenient input into a bluetooth enabled device in a variety of situations.
Essential Reality – P5 Glove
To digitally “walk” through an online room or actually “pick up” objects in a video game requires the ability to manipulate in three-dimensions. Not through complicated keystrokes but by the simple movement of your hand in space.
MessagEase Keyboard Technology
MessagEase onscreen keyboard provides an alternative for text entry for any language and alphabet. MessagEase provides a novel ergonomic design which uses a smaller area and fewer buttons, yet rendering a faster text entry for all mobile devices.
Lightglove Human Interface Device
The Lightglove is a new human interface device that you wear on the underside of your wrist. Light from the device (visual or infrared) scans the palm and senses wrist, hand and finger motion. This data is translated into either on-screen cursor control or key closures and in addition works as a long distance on/off switch for virtually all electronics.
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