Bloomberg: Israel Startup Adds Display To Keyboards For Struggling Typists
Aug 29, 2012 8:53 AM ET–KeyView, an Israeli startup company, plans to introduce a computer keyboard with a built-in display, allowing poor typists to view what they have typed without having to look up at the monitor.
The so-called smartype device has a strip at the top that shows what letters and words have been typed and enabling the user to keep looking at the keyboard.
KeyView was set up by Dov Moran, the founder and former chief executive of M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd., which was acquired by SanDisk Corp. (SNDK) in 2006 for about $1.3 billion.
“This is an Israeli consumer product that we hope will reach millions of users,” Moran said at the product’s introduction today in Tel Aviv. Consumers find the use of existing keyboards “mediocre.”
The majority of people do not touch-type and suffer from loss of time and typing errors, according to KeyView. Regular keyboards can cause neck and eye strain, as a result of splitting the visual focus between the keyboard and the screen. The patented product helps minimize typing errors and can also be used for various applications such as e-mail notification, time, photos and weather, the company said…Read More>>
