Ever wanted to project your iPhone 4 66-inches across your ceiling? It’s now possible with the new MISEETX. But that’s just one small function for the world’s first fully integrated micro-computer. It also boasts pretty much every input and output port you would ever need, a Intel Atom 1.6 GHz, 66-inch HD Pico projector using DLP, along with a touch screen, Wifi, and a “Virtual Laser Keyboard” which is as responsive as it is cool. The mouse also packs a virtual keyboard inside. They will sell for around $600, no date set for release yet.

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Researchers at the University of Technology in Sydney have come up with an interesting solution for devices like the Apple iPad. In effect, you can rest your fingers on the screen of the tablet without accidentally typing anything. That’s the biggest problem with the virtual keyboard on the iPad (and other products like it); you touch it, you type it, but you don’t get the clickity-clack of a physical button. But the full QWERTY keyboard is “liquid” insofar that it follows your fingers. No matter where you rest your four fingers, that half of the keyboard will be there. The “fluid” keyboard adjusts to your specific physiology too, since people have different size hands and slightly different finger positioning.

The LiquidKeyboard won’t give you that “sense of where keys are relative to others” like how a physical equivalent would, but it’s probably closer than the rigid layout of a standard tablet’s virtual keyboard.

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So we’re still not totally sure how it works, but SnapKeys 2i definitely caught our interest at CES 2011. Using only four imaginary letter keys and one hell of an advanced word prediction engine, SnapKeys hopes to change the way people type on their smartphones and tablets forever.

“There is a fundamental problem in entering data on mobile devices. Keyboards were meant for fixed devices, not mobile ones, and screens are supposed to support your output, not be cluttered by your input interface,” says Benjamin Ghassabian, CEO of SnapKeys Limited. “SnapKeys 2i resolves that problem. By allowing users to interact with the screen using an extremely simple keypad model which is in their mind, the system frees the whole screen for output display.”

The interface isn’t a dummy either, you’ve got full letters,  numbers, punctuation marks, the whole nine yards plus it can be positioned anywhere on the screen so that your keyboard isn’t hogging half your screen space. You can play with SnapKeys 2i on all the major OS’s – Android, Windows, Symbian and iOS. And it’s available in most European and Asian languages which is pretty neat too.

If you’re not at CES you’ll want to see the promo YouTube video to get a better look at this in action, otherwise swing by and try it out in person at Booth 26609 in the LVCC South Hall 2.

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Just like the virtual keyboard on the Apple iPhone, the one on the iPad comes with its fair share of shortcuts and tricks too. You don’t have to take that touchscreen QWERTY at face value. Case in point, you don’t need to switch to the number keyboard to get an apostrophe.

Instead, all you have to do is hold your finger on the comma button for a second or two. After a moment, a blue square will pop up above it showing an apostrophe. Let go and and apostrophe has been inserted. For an even faster method, press your finger on the comma key and “flick” your finger upwards to get the same effect.

The same interface can be used to get certain French accented letters. Just put your finger on the “base” letter, flick your finger upward, and you’ll get the accented version. It’s not perfect, but it’s a heck of a lot faster.

Quickly Insert An Apostrophe [iPad Keyboard Tip] [iPadInCanada]

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You can see all of the slight variations below, giving you access to either a four-row or five-row configuration depending on your particular preferences. This refined on-screen keyboard will accompany the Windows Mobile 6.5 build 28002.

This build, which is being dubbed Windows Mobile 6.5.3 by the guys at XDA Developers, will offer a touchscreen keyboard that is a little more finger-friendly. As you can see the keyboard is similar to what you’d get with a BlackBerry Storm or other handsets like it.

With previous Windows Mobile touchscreen phones, the on-screen keyboard has been largely designed to work with a stylus. Since there is a trend pushing toward capacitive rather than resistive toushcreens, Microsoft needed to make something more finger-friendly.

Source: PocketNow

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You don’t gain access to this touchscreen keyboard right out of the box, but it seems that a native on-screen keyboard is a very real possibility. Jumping into the webOS Internals, you’ll find that there are files that can be modified to provide this added functionality.

More specifically, the files you want are the ones that control the SYM pop-up extra characters list. The resulting keyboard can be used in both portrait and landscape orientations, making it so much more convenient for you to enter text without sliding out that sticky physical keyboard.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that this development is still very early on and it’s probably riddled with bugs and errors. In fact, they’re saying that the patch is “pre-alpha” and nowhere near ready for public consumption. I believe you can find the pre-alpha patch out there for download, but there is a very real possibility that it’ll break your Pre.

I always find it a little strange that when a device is equipped with a touchscreen and a physical keyboard that the developers do not provide native support for a touchscreen keyboard in the first place. Just because I like the physical keyboard does not mean that I don’t want an on-screen keyboard in a pinch.

Source: PreCentral

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