Fujitsu takamizawa single hand keyboard for pilot URLs http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/news/1996/Jun/ms_txt.html http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/ft/newinfo/sh-keys.html http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/news/1998/May/27-e.html letters on the keyboard (silk print) P/N G/T C/R Z/K W/J UpC A E H/I S/O Ar Tc U/D X/F Y/M V/L Q/B Sp actual data bytes transmitted from the keyboard (9600bps N81XN) ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Fujitsu takamizawa software: Ambiguity will be resolved by software, using dictionary or other database. For example 1. "HELLO" should be typed as "H/I E V/L V/L S/O" 2. there are 16 possibilities, that are: HEVVS HEVVO HEVLS HEVLO HELVS HELVO HELLS HELLO IEVVS IEVVO IEVLS IEVLO IELVS IELVO IELLS IELLO 3. From the dictionary possible choice can be narrowed to "hello". Note that "hell" is uncountable :-p Problem with the Fujitsu method: - learning curve. - dictionary tend to be big for PDA device (especially if you have only 2M). - how to disambiguate words that are not on the dictionary? Possible usage proposal: - use as number keypad. (fairly simple) - use as half qwerty (there are many possible mappings, for mirrored/non-mirrored and right/left-hand oriented): q/y w/u e/i r/o t/p a/h s/j d/k f/l g/* z/n x/m c/* v/* b/* - use as phone-pad-like encoding input device, like: space abc def * * * ghi jkl mnp * * * prq tuv wxy qz * * - special keypad design for Japanese roma-ji input (to be used with two thumbs) Japanese roma-ji is usually ordered like "HiRaGaNa", i.e. consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel..., so it is good to separate "vowel side" and "consonant side". a o n k s t e u space n h m i * * y r w - use as game pad :-P * up * * up * left * right left * right * down * * down * - twiddler-like (two-keys-at-once)... is hard to implement as the keyboard does not send make/break signal.