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12.06.2002

Pocket computers are easy to carry, but inconvenient to use: either there is no keyboard, or it is so small that it is difficult to work with it.

The German company "Siemens" demonstrated at the annual computer exhibition developed in Israel "virtual keyboard". It is projected onto a table or any other horizontal surface by miniature laser beams. Moving your fingers, pressing the "keys" displayed on the table, you cross the laser beams, and these intersections are converted into letters on the PDA display.

Another option was proposed by the Swiss firm "Sensbord Technologies". "Bracelets" are put on the hands, which convert the movements of the fingers into letters. But to work with this keyboard, training and some imagination are needed - to imagine a keyboard in front of you that does not exist.

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