What it looks like is a pair of EMG-monitors strapped to your hands - which allows you tp type as though you`re typing on a keyboard and will translate that into the letters you`d be typing.

The article doesn`t go into that level of depth, but that is what I am assuming it uses. It looks like it could be pretty cool as a much better version of a mobile keyboard. It might even allow you to type in the air, thus allowing a fully-wearable interface that will be more familiar to most computer users thatn having to learn how to use a chording keyboard.

I recommend you look at the website as it contains funky-pictures of the product, or read the two pages I`ve copied in below.

Press 

Founded in 2000, Senseboard Technologies is an IT company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.  Their revolutionary new “virtual keyboard” allows mobile computer users to type efficiently without a physical keyboard.  Senseboard President Mrs. Gunilla Alsiö has advanced degrees and studies in Human Computer Interaction, Ergonomics, and Occupational Therapy.

Designed for “keyboard challenged” mobile computer users, Senseboard^TM “virtual keyboard” is a small device that attaches to the palms of the hand and allows users to type on any surface as if it were a keyboard.  It works by measuring finger movements and determining the appropriate keystrokes or mouse movements.

Senseboard^TM contains sensor technology, artificial intelligence, bluetooth, a DC-port and a language processor. Senseboard^TM is easy to use, requires no training, and does not decrease typing speed or accuracy. Senseboard^TM together with a PDA, a Smart Phone or a Wearable Computer and a Head Mounted Display provides the user with a full-size computer that fits in a pocket.

Senseboard^TM will be demonstrated daily during COMDEX Fall 2001 in Las Vegas, November 12-16.

- Image: Senseboard^TM hand mounted devices

- Image: Senseboard^TM

^{For further information please contact} 

^{Mrs. Gunilla Alsiö}

^{+46 8 180 281, +46 707 193 143}

^{gunilla.alsio@senseboard.com}

 

The Product

Senseboard^TM Virtual Keybord (VK) is an exciting new product, designed for the millions of mobile computer users, struggling with their tiny or nonexistent keyboards when trying to communicate or type.

Senseboard^TM VK is perfect for businessmen typing e-mails and other documents away from the office. The technology is completely silent allowing e.g. journalists typing articles during a press conference or an interview. The typing speed matches that of standard keyboards allowing quick chatting away from the desktop.

 

Senseboard^TM VK is typically used together with a PDA, a Smart Phone or a Wearable Computer with a Head Mounted Display. 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.

Senseboard^TM VK communicates by radio or wire with the PDA, Smart Phone or Wearable Computer.

Senseboard^TM is protected by patent pending.

 

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