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From Wired News: http://www.wired.com/news/technolog...2,32055,00.html

_LET'S GET SMALL_

Japan's mind-boggling genius for miniaturization was demonstrated when a company from the densely populated nation showed off a miniature keyboard for the Palm that was not much bigger than a Band Aid.

Future Technology Laboratory's ThumbType is a full QWERTY keyboard that clips neatly over the Palm's Graffiti writing area.

Users type with their thumbs by hitting the tiny bumps used to emphasize each letter, and it's surprisingly easy to adapt to. Thumbtype's Xiaopeng He said that with practice, the tiny keyboard is faster than handwriting using Graffiti. The teeny typer will be available in the US in about three months, selling at around US$40.

"I thought you'd need microscopic thumbs for it to work," said Dave Sims, an editorial director at tech publisher O'Reilly and Associates, who played with it for a few minutes. "It was easier than I expected."
http://www.thumbtype.com

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UPDATE: See this thread.

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