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Carpet keyboard gives your feet a non-QWERTY workout
We'll spare you our feelings on non-QWERTY layouts, but one thing's for sure -- Maurin Donneaud's Carpet 'board would certainly stretch the mind and leg muscles if used for any length of time. It isn't the first fabric keyboard to grace the phalanges of eager typists, but this DIY concoction is definitely the largest we've seen. Peck the links below for more shots of the construction process.[Via Hack-A-Day]
Eleksen's double-sided fabric keyboard
We must've brushed right past this thing while we were drooling all over those new phones at 3GSM, but Eleksen recently introduced a new fabric keyboard, and this one has a bit of a twist to it. Along with being rather diminutive, the QWERTY keyboard can be flipped over on the fly to use specific function keys on the opposite side, such as media controls and a numeric keypad. That's pretty much the whole story here, no word yet on price or availability, but we're looking forward to taking this one for a spin (literally) whenever it does show up on the market.[Via TRFJ]
Eleksen's fabric keyboard / UMPC case in the wild
The fabric keyboard gurus over at Eleksen are apparently moving forward with its colorful fabric keyboard / UMPC case hybrid, which would add another clever offering to its already sleek Bluetooth and bendable options. While we the knew the company was eying opportunities to bring the vivid peripheral to market one way or another, it appears that Glen Evans of PocketPC Solutions has had the pleasure of testing out a working prototype of the aforementioned accessory with his very own TabletKiosk eo. His seemingly positive remarks suggested that it produces "an audible click when a key is pressed, and that it's very usable on a daily basis," which admittedly might not be all that long given the meager battery life in most UMPCs. While we're still not sure if Eleksen is looking to pump these out under its own name or offload the task to a willing OEM, be sure to click on for another shot of the cloth-based keyboard in its electric green glory.
