Windows Tablet PCs already have handwriting recognition software, but alas our poor mortals with Windows XP or Windows Vista are forced to continue pecking away at our carpal-tunnel inducing keyboards.
Well, today I learned that A1Pro has a cool new USB keyboard that combines... uhhh well a keyboard of course, along with a touch-screen pad for handwriting in your text data entry. Or at least I think it does handwriting recognition. The specs are a little vague on the DealExtreme website, and the text on the box says in what appears to be very poor English - "Handwritten identify the system". Huh?This could mean handwriting recognition or it could simply be a security system similar to biometric fingerprint readers that let you quickly logon to laptops/PCs. In theory, this touch-screen pad asks you to enter in a password or type a few keystrokes and it recognizes your handwriting style. Though I'm not sure how accurate determining who the author is of handwriting is. Heck, I can't even read my own writing so how can I expect this keyboard to know it's me?
p.s. The box also butchers the English language when it says "Multimedia super and thin keyboard". I think they meant "Super multimedia features and thin keyboard".
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