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FrogPad™ is a one-handed keyboard to be used with USB
Keyboard compatible PDA's, Pocket PCs, Tablet and Wearable
PC's, and other mobile applications, such as portable
laptops, which utilizes the flexibility and ease of
one-handed functionality and the performance of an efficient
keyboard.
The FrogPad™ has been designed for fast data entry.
The letter layout is based on the percent usage of each
letter in the English language. Fifteen letters that
are used 86% of the time by typists are placed in the
most efficient locations on the keyboard.
It was also designed using the natural drumming motion
of the hand. The letter layout is optimized for other
languages, thus scaleable internationally. Pin Yin,
Hiragana, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, and all
European language accents are considered and will be
developed with our licensed partners.
Based upon initial usability studies, this new modality
of typing can significantly reduce the time new typists
take to learn traditional touch-typing. These studies
have found that an average person learned to "Touch-type" 40
words a minutes within the first 10 hours of practice.
This is the most effective data entry method for children.
For more information on products for children and the
ergonomically challenged, send inquiries to .
PORTABLE PC
The only limiting factor to the reduction in size of
a Laptop is the Keyboard. Imagine a Wireless Internet
Portable PC, with a 7.7" Color
touchscreen display,
MP3 Player, streaming video and a fully functional
'FrogPad™
PDA
The most significant short-term opportunity in 2003
is to integrate FrogPad™ with existing PDA's to provide
technology and functionality differentiation for the
embedded product.
WIRELESS INTERNET DEVICE
The most significant short-term opportunity for Wireless
Internet devices in 2003 is to develop a "clamshell" carrier
containing a FrogPad™ and a Smart Phone to provide an
attachable information and communications device. For
this device, Frog Design has stated that the width of
the keys may be reduced by 8%, and still be fully functional
for the big American SUV hand.
The opportunity for the New World Wide Standard for Data Entry is FrogPad™
Data to consider:
"Wireless data is a potentially vast market, work over $82 billion per annum by 2012." J.P. Morgan, Wireless Magazine, February, 2002
Intermarket Group estimates there will be 729 million wireless Internet users in 2005.
The Yankee Group estimates there will be 60 million wireless data devices in the United States by 2005.
Accenture, formerly Anderson Consulting, puts the globeal market for wireless Internet-capable devices at 1.7 billion connections by 2005.
Cahners In-Stat/MDR predicts that by 2005, more than 50 percent of the 900 million cellular phones sold will be data enabled.
Strategy Analytics predicts the global market of mobile Internet capable devices will grow from $10 billion in 2000, to $73 billion by 2005.
J.P. Morgan estimates that wireless data revenues in 2006 will equal the size of today's voice market.
Forrester Research - 64% of US households have at least one mobile phone - The State of Mobile Adoption 2003.
International Herald Tribune In Europe, more than 95% of the adult population uses cell phones.
Paul Davidson, USA Today - Believe it or not, 43% of U.S. consumers still don't have a cell phone - many for budget reasons
Anthony Faiola, Washington Post - Around 70 million Japanese, equivalent to about 55% of the population, have signed up for Internet access for their mobile phones. February 19, 2004.
Yuki Noguchi and Griff Witte, Washington Post - In South Korea, data accounts for 14% of wireless carriers' revenue, while in the U.S. data accounts for less than 3% of the cellular phone industry - February 19, 2004
Jerri Stroud, St. Louis Post - Dispatch - The number of text messages sent monthly in the United States rose from 14.4 million in December 2000 to over 1.2 billion in June 2003 according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.
The Need:
Demand is exploding for a new generation of mobile devices. There is no standard data entry device. For Portability, Miniature keyboards, Thumb Keyboards, Folding
keyboards, Electronic Ink, and Voice Recognition are sufficient but not fully functional. Despite the substantial potential of current devices, the true promise of a
"wireless Internet phone/customer" cannot be fully realized without a practical means for users to input and access data.
Users are demanding the ability to access and manipulate any data from anywhere and at any time.
A hunger to access the Internet from any environment is leading to rapid advances in wireless communications and convergence with computing technology.
The total cost of ownership is declining due to falling hardware costs and reduced service fees.
Advances in semiconductor technology have enabled the development of inexpensive chips that integrate many functions on smaller footprints with lower power requirements.
Software platforms such as Bluetooth® and 802.11b allow remote devices to communicate with each other, share data and synch with other devices.
The only obstacle to reducing the size of a PC is the keyboard. And the only fully functional portable keyboard with only 13.2- full sized keys is FrogPad™!
Consider the following article by Fredric Paul, TechWeb.com Editor-In-Chief, October 21, 2002: Laptops Vs. PDAs. In his most recent column (Laptops And Mobile Users: Everything is Old Is New Again),
Carl Zetie addresses an issue everyone else seems to want to ignore: As PDA's get more powerful, what's the point of a laptop? Zetie's InformationWeek column says there are plenty of reasons laptops will reamin relevant. I use my PDA and laptop for much different tasks. To me, ...the PDA as we now know it that's threatened.
Using your PDA for light-duty mobile applications is one thing, but relying on it for mission-critical productivity apps will require a big leap in computing power - not to mention some major user-interface breakthroughs. I see a future in which one hand-held device takes care of all your truly mobile applications, and a "real" computer is needed for "real" work.
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