Posts Tagged Engineering Manager

Keyboard to be worn on the arm

Posted by on Friday, 17 July, 2009

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You can never know the situations you’ll have the chance or, on the other hand, the misfortune, to experience in a lifetime, so it’s necessary for you to always be as cautious as possible. You can never know when you’ll be in the position to need a wearable keyboard, but if it will ever happen to you such thing, you shouldn’t worry, because the guys over iKey have already taken care of this aspect.

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They came up with the AK-39 keyboard, which can be worn by those who need it, on the arm. This is what they call a human interface device (also known as HID). A great thing about it is the fact that it comes in a rugged outfit, which means it meets the MIL-461 standards. In consequence, you can always use the keyboard in harsh conditions and you can be sure of the fact it won’t mind.

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The device comes with a pointing device that is based on the technology known as Force Sensing Resistor (FSR), having a left and right-button functionality, and with a green LED backlighting that can be adjusted. The latter is equipped with night vision compatibility.

The keyboard measures no more than 6.91 x 3.06 x 0.81 inches and comes with 39-key pad. It is resistant to all sorts of factors, such as water, debris and dust, and it’s able to function between -40 and +70 degrees Celsius.

“The AK-39 is the most functional and versatile wearable keyboard available with robust EMI performance” said Pete Fuselier, the Engineering Manager at iKey. “And because it is designed and built to the high standards of iKey products, it is ruggedized to withstand harsh environmental conditions, such as rain, dirt and extreme temperatures”.

(Source: Coolest-Gadgets)


Google Waves hello with its the social media aggregator to end all others

Posted by on Thursday, 28 May, 2009
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Google is introducing some frighteningly integrated web software that I can best describe as a kind of live, collaborative Facebook page. Google Wave will bring together all of your social media apps and all your media itself together in a place where it can be accessed by as many people as you like at one time. It can be added to, commented on and edited in more ways than I can get my tiny little mind around at 5pm in the afternoon the day after the Champions League final. In a phone interview with Google software engineering manager, Lars Rasmussen, Tech Radar got the full low down on precisely what Wave can do but, suffice to say, it looks like a lot of fun. Wave’s being shown off at Google’s I/O in San Franciso. It is, of course, all open source so that people can write extensions for it much like Firefox, it works in a browser, embedded in sites and the big G is also releasing an API for it. They’ll be more on it including a video demo as soon as it goes official in America and doubtless we’ll all be addicted to it about three days after it’s ours to use. The mind blowing continues. Google Wave