abKey® has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Asia Award for 2006.
The prestigious award recognises the most promising companies in all of Asia,
highlighting those who have shaped the future of technology innovation and
transformed markets. Nominees were evaluated on financials, management, and overall
strategic integration into the marketplace.
"This keyboard from abKey® revolutionizes the way to type by changing the position of the keys to those places closer to where we rest the fingers. It is a revolutionary idea with an innovative design."
Translation from Spanish website – Jan. 14, 2005
http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2005/
especiales/0105/ces2005/htm/ces2005-35.htm
The abKey® idea was conceived in the USA, while the inventor, a graduate student from Singapore, was watching the popular TV program Wheel of Fortune. It struck him that out of the most common letters in the alphabet (the vowels and R,S,T), only 2 were in the home-row of his Qwerty keyboard - named after the first six keys on its top row. Studying further, he found that the Qwerty was purposely designed to slow down the typist to prevent jamming by the type bars in mechanical typewriters of the day (1878)!
It dawned on him that he had discovered the reason why Qwerty causes suffering (users talk about its curse! ) for it’s hard to learn and painful to use - Qwerty was designed for difficulty! Further, he realised that today’s electronic keyboards don’t jam – Qwerty is thus not only bad, it’s obsolete! There’s no reason for users to be stuck on it and continue to suffer. So he began to experiment and develop a new keyboard system, from scratch – based on the needs of the user not a machine – and abKey® was born.
The Revolution has begun – senior managers now need not waste much time trying to pick up typing for messaging or email, no more shame on the plane using two fingers while the rest of the passengers on board are touch-typing away, kids do not need to struggle with the keyboard anymore, teachers need not waste time on teaching the task of typing, and can have more time with teaching tasks that matter, and we can now beat the impending global pandemic that has been predicted of CTS and RSI… Thank God - we’re free.. at last !
"abKey® is simple, and makes sense. It is the way that keyboards should have been invented from the beginning. It is (superior to the Dvorak and) 99% better than Qwerty – in fact, if given a choice, I would not even consider the Qwerty." Barbara Blackburn, of Salem, Oregon, USA, officially recognised as the world’s fastest typist (Guinness Book of World Records 1975-1985), and with extensive experience with both Qwerty and Dvorak keyboards.
"It is about time that someone invented a keyboard for this new millenium."
Maarten van de Rakt, Consumentenredactie, GPD, the Netherlands.
"A new, easy-to-learn keyboard design could - in theory – save billions of dollars" Jack Schofield respected IT journalist of the Guardian (UK): Schofield outlined potential savings in shorter learning time, efficient typing and health. Schofield himself learned the abKey ® layout in 5 mins., which was “better than what he could do with Qwerty after 35 years!” abKey ® , he said, is the first keyboard he’s seen that has a chance of replacing Qwerty. Jan 20, 05.
abKey® is a globally patented and patent pending revolutionary keyboard system, to be implemented in desktop keyboards, notebook PCS and mobile devices, offering you a choice –"the long-awaited freedom from Qwerty - after 128 years!”
It’s alphabetical, with all the most common keys in or near the homerow, and an ergonomic V-shape.
Now, touch-typing can be as easy as abKey® !
You can learn it in One Hour and remember it for a lifetime! No more weeks and months of tedious classes and drills.
Also, abKey® lets you type
• Up to twice as fast.
• more accurately and
• lots more comfortably!
"A new type of keyboard promising higher typing speed has been invented by a Singaporean entrepreneur. Singapore inventor promotes new keyboard. Its more ergonomic design and layout will also help ease the pain of the carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers..." People’s Daily, Xinhua, 28 July 2005
abKey® has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Asia Award for 2006.
The prestigious award recognises the most promising companies in all of Asia,
highlighting those who have shaped the future of technology innovation and
transformed markets. Nominees were evaluated on financials, management, and overall
strategic integration into the marketplace.
