Blazepro's Wireless PS3 Keypad is 80% cheaper than Sony's, and it costs less too
by Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 20th 2009 at 4:40AM
[Via DCEMUUK Forums, thanks Craig]
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[Via DCEMUUK Forums, thanks Craig]
USB Wireless Keypad is perfect for number-crunching on-the-go
by Laura June posted Dec 30th 2008 at 2:58PM
Brando's new USB Wireless Keypad is probably just what you're looking for, if you're looking for a wireless keypad, of course. It's got the standard keypad keys, 13 hotkeys, and a totally sweet built-in trackball. It's no Optimus Aux, or anything, but we imagine this pad will be best put to use whilst counting huge piles of coins (or any hard currency) in a public library or adding up intense columns of figures on the subway. 3,700 coppers and it's yours.
United Keys OLED Display Keyboard and Keypad hands-on
by Paul Miller posted Dec 12th 2008 at 6:55PM
New Optimus Aux shots show a sexier vision
by Paul Miller posted Sep 19th 2008 at 5:19PM
Sony intros wireless keypad attachment for the PS3
by Joshua Topolsky posted Aug 20th 2008 at 12:14PM
Creative's ZEN X-Fi player with WiFi gets a lot more real
by Thomas Ricker posted Jun 29th 2008 at 6:12AM
The Creative kids over at epiZENter have what looks to be a genuine scoop of an unannounced ZEN X-Fi. Not only did they receive this supposedly leaked photo, they also managed to dig out a "ZEN X-Fi Starter Pack" (software and user guide) from the bowels of Creative's own site. Accordingly, we're looking at a new DAP with SD expansion and built-in WiFi, speaker, FM tuner, voice recorder, and the ability to stream media from Creative's "Public Media Server." Additionally, users can chat with Yahoo! Messenger and Microsoft Live! users thanks to the 9-button, cellphone-like keypad. More details and genuflecting lie just beyond the read link.
[Thanks Tony and everyone who sent this in]
[Thanks Tony and everyone who sent this in]
Universal's dual-use KP-900 wireless keypad / remote gets official
by Darren Murph posted Feb 13th 2008 at 9:17AM
[Via Widescreen Review]
Prototype mobile showcases e-ink keypad
by Chris Ziegler posted Oct 3rd 2007 at 4:51PM
[Via Ubergizmo]
Ezkey's mouse and keypad combo
by Thomas Ricker posted Jul 31st 2007 at 4:15AM
RIM's patent application for reconfigurable keypad
by Sean Cooper posted Jun 21st 2007 at 11:13AM
[Via Unwired View]
NEC's "Latticekey" concept keypad for mobiles
by Chris Ziegler posted Mar 18th 2007 at 5:24AM
NEC was showing off some conceptual stuff at CeBIT this year and when we caught sight of what looked like a mobile phone, we hustled over to get a look. Upon closer inspection what they were actually demonstrating was an keypad interface for a mobile phone. Labelled the "Latticekey Interface," the idea is fairly straightforward: none of the keys on the handset have labels of any type, but once you place you fingers on them, the screen will help guide you to use them for whatever task is at hand. This is actually a pretty slick concept, but sadly it was only that – no hands-on here, folks. We included a pic of the text in the display, as NEC worded it in such a dreamy, Utopian voice.
Gallery: NEC gets all conceptual at CeBIT
RIM applies for triangular keyboard layout patent
by Conrad Quilty-Harper posted Feb 11th 2007 at 2:55AM
Big, tactile, and fast QWERTY keyboards are the Blackberry's defining characteristic: why then is RIM showing signs that it's going to mess with their tried and tested formula? In the second patent application to surface from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a series of drawings show a Blackberry design with a keyboard that features up to six different letters on large, triangular shaped keys, although the majority of the keyboard designs group three letters onto each key. As a logical extension of the BB Pearl's space saving -- but mushy -- two letter per key combo, it's natural that RIM would want to control the rights to these kind of keyboard layouts. Still, as a history of failed keyboard designs indicate, there's very little chance that this kind of layout would catch on were it to be released in a physical product. If you ask us, the real money's in tactile touchscreen keypads. That's not thinking different, it's thinking better.[Via Unwired View]
Inventor crafts inexpensive gesture-based 3D touchpad
by Darren Murph posted Feb 2nd 2007 at 7:01AM
While there's been boasting galore about gesture-based keyboards, scanners, phones, and more keyboards, it looks like an elusive inventor has crafted yet another "3D touchpad" which can be moved around and placed on (or under) nearly any keyboard that you'd like to implement gesture-based technology on. As with similar renditions, the pad can detect movements of your hand floating above it, and can create inputs not always possible on a typical keyboard. Interestingly, this flavor can purportedly work on standard boards, underneath laptop boards, and even under the "screen of a PDA or cellphone." While our skeptic gear is still zipped on tight, it's said that a few working examples are already out of the lab, and that the special antennas capable of picking up hand movements wouldn't cost much more than it did to insert "scroll wheels into mice." We'll let the peculiar analogy slide if this thing hits the market for a competitive price, deal?[Thanks, Kerunt]
Chemists craft molecular keypad lock
by Darren Murph posted Dec 29th 2006 at 2:02AM
While the folks behind the AACS could probably use a few pointers about constructing a sufficient lock of their own, a group of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovat, Israel have crafted a molecule-sized "keypad lock" that "only activates when exposed to the correct password, a sequence of chemicals and light." Organic chemist Abraham Shanzer and his colleagues suggest that their invention could "lead to a new level of safeguards for secret information," but we tend think the infamous hackers of the world would inevitably crack the code. Nevertheless, the molecule -- dubbed FLIP -- houses a core linker that mimics a bacterial compound that binds to iron, and attached to it are two molecules that respectively can glow either blue or green. Using three "buttons," which just so happen to be an acidic molecule, an alkaline compound, and ultraviolet light, the lock can be "opened" if given the right sequence of chemicals and light, and there's a grand total of two noticeable results possible. Interestingly, the researchers have insinuated that their creation could be used to recognize "when certain sequences of chemicals (like harmful toxins) are released in the body," but we haven't heard a 10-4 from the US Army just yet.[Via Yahoo, thanks, Antonio H.]
HTC Vox (S710) smartphone revealed
by Paul Miller posted Dec 13th 2006 at 2:20PM
