E-ink screens may be all the rage for e-book readers, but Samsung’s turned the display technology on its head by putting it to use as a keyboard on its latest phone.
Samsung_alias_2_01 Samsung's Alias 2: has a morphing E-Ink keyboard
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E-ink screens may be all the rage for e-book readers, but Samsung’s turned the display technology on its head by putting it to use as a keyboard on its latest phone. Samsung_alias_2_01 Samsung's Alias 2: has a morphing E-Ink keyboard The Alias 2 – successor to Samsung’s 2007 Alias – is described as a dual-hinge messaging …
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Posted Tuesday 12th May 2009 12:01 GMT
Random Noise
E-Ink? Lame! #
E-ink was so yesterday. Check out what the boffins at Carnege Mellon have made:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/04/28/cmu_touchscreen_popup/
Posted Tuesday 12th May 2009 12:02 GMT
Greg
Nice idea #
It'd be great on something like an Android phone, with an open API. Open a code editor, get a different keyboard. Start a game, get game controls.
Posted Tuesday 12th May 2009 12:02 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Genius! #
I love it.. That is all!
Posted Tuesday 12th May 2009 12:02 GMT
Buck Futter
Well look at that... #
Microsoft bob in your pocket. Ten million fans can't be wrong.
Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 12:51 GMT
Nicholas Wright
Nice idea! #
Like it! Now stick it on a proper phone!
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