Eleksen Unveils Wireless Keyboard at CES; ElekTex(R) Smart Fabric Portable Keyboard Now Available; Also Offered for OEM/Branding Opportunities.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Eleksen Ltd., one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of smart fabrics for an extensive range of consumer products, today announced the availability of its ElekTex(R) Smart Fabric wireless keyboard in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Designed for Smart phones, PDAs and handheld devices, the keyboard supports easy access to email, document editing, texting and mobile web browsing, and is lightweight, portable, and full laptop-sized. The product is currently on display in Booth 72230 at the Sands. The new lightweight and flexible keyboard designed for portable computing and communications devices uses Bluetooth(R) connectivity, is 100% fabric, water-repellent, super durable, and comes with a mobile phone/PDA stand. Weighing 2.4oz, the standard ElekTex keyboard design is the most portable keyboard Either a very small keyboard or a full-size keyboard that can be folded into a small unit for travel. Portable keyboards are available for PDAs and other handhelds as well as laptops. See virtual keyboard. on the market and it can be rolled up when not in use to fit easily in a pocket or handbag. "We've designed this product with the business person on the go in mind so it's the perfect companion product for the highly mobile worker who wants to use a lightweight computer like a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). or Smart phone to stay in contact with their office and their customers," said Product Manager Andrew Newman. "Where existing key pads on many Smart phones and PDAs make typing anything longer than a short message impractical and uncomfortable, we've designed the laptop-sized ElekTex fabric keyboard to allow consumers to easily and more comfortably type longer documents on their phones and handheld devices - making these new portable devices more usable." The keyboard is available now for distributors and retailers in the U.S. to be sold through their Smart phone peripherals and accessories businesses. It can be customized to meet the branding requirements of the smallest and largest distributors, retailers and wireless network carriers. It can also be styled to fit the corporate identity of large enterprise users who find that the ElekTex keyboard fits their strategy of creating a more fully functional, mobile workforce. The keyboard's standard design includes a charcoal gray Noun 1. charcoal gray - a very dark grey color charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey, charcoal gray, grayness, greyness, grey - a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black fabric keyboard and the electronics plastic housing has an embedded LED to show keyboard status and Bluetooth connectivity status. Newman continues, "The ElekTex Smart Fabric wireless keyboard truly displays the benefits of Eleksen's core technology for consumer product design. Our product is the most lightweight, flexible, portable, and exceptionally durable keyboard on the market. Working with smart fabric interfaces offers product developers a compelling and highly differentiated product, perfect for the highly competitive computer peripherals and accessories sectors. In addition, we offer the underlying electronics and sensor design to OEMs and ODMs for use in their own keyboard product developments." The Eleksen smart keyboard sensor, electronics and Bluetooth interface is available for entities interested in designing or manufacturing their own, branded smart fabric keyboard interfaces for the growing market of highly portable and mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings devices. This reference design can be scaled to support different keypad sizes and covering materials. For more information about Eleksen offerings, please visit www.eleksen.com. About Eleksen Eleksen Ltd. is the world leader in touch sensitive interactive textiles for electronics interface design. The company's core technology, ElekTex(R), is a unique electro-conductive fabric touch pad optimized for the creation of flexible, durable and rugged fabric touch screen interfaces. ElekTex(R) is used in applications ranging from wearable electronic controls for consumer electronics and industrial wear to lightweight, low-power touch interfaces for CE accessories, telematics Originally coined to mean the convergence of telecommunications and information processing, the term later evolved to refer to automation in automobiles. GPS navigation, integrated hands-free cellphones, wireless communications and automatic driving assistance systems all come under the , military, transportation and space suits. It replaces the hard touch pads, flexi-circuits and polymer switches which have limited the growth of the wearable electronics markets. Eleksen licenses ElekTex(R) and reference design to manufacturers for use in custom electronics design and also markets a range of ready-to-integrate solutions for garment, bags and accessories manufacturers. The company is backed by an impressive list of investors: 3i, MTI MTI Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore) MTI Metal Treating Institute MTI Moving Target Indicator (radar) MTI Magyar Távirati Iroda (news agency in Budapest, Hungary) , MVI MVI Multivitamin MVI Multi-Vendor Import MVI Melt-Volume Index MVI Motor Vehicle Incident MVI MODIS Vegetation Index MVI Multiple Variable Inversion MVI Microsoft Virus Initiative MVI Multi-Vitamin Injection MVI Motion Video Instructions , Siemens Venture Capital, Vesta Capital Partners and Wireless Frontiers. Eleksen is headquartered in Pinewood pine·wood n. 1. The wood of the pine tree. 2. A forest of pines. Often used in the plural. Studios near London, England and in Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. near Boston. |
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