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Thursday, August 08, 2002

New Soft Keyboard for Palms & iPAQs

Today's Circuits section in the New York Times has an item on a new, forthcoming flexible keyboard for popular PDAs from GrandTec USA.

The PocketVIK--for Virtually Indestructible Keyboard--is a rubbery see-through device, said to be spill- and stain- proof.

According to its web site, the firm plans models "for Pocket PC (iPAQ) and for Palm (m125, m130, m500, m505, m515, and i705)." No more details were provided as to which iPAQ/PPC models would be supported.

The flat, flexible, shrunken-by-25%, keyboard is expected to be in stores in about a month and sell for $60USD.

You can sign up for email notification of its release on the company's web site.