Our goal is to make keyboard input more logical, simple and practical on small computers. We do this by reducing the mechanical keyboard from over one hundred keys, down to only ten keys, one for each finger. This ten key format provides complete keyboard functionality in very convenient configurations, perfect for various mobile applications. Each key acts as a “shift” key to create nine other options once one key is pressed, a tenth option if the key is released. Your hands don’t need to move around over a keyboard because you fingers are already located on the only keys they need to press.

Typing with gloves is just one example that demonstrates how perfectly natural ten fingers, with two opposable thumbs, can replicate the 26 letter alphabet. The IN10DID formula is based upon the sequence of the alphabet, making it much easier to learn, and it also puts many letters in convenient locations. For example, one vowel is located on each index finger and each ring finger, with the most used vowel, the letter “E”, on the right thumb.

IN10DID also divides the alphabet more evenly, with only three letters served by each forward finger. Common functions and symbols are grouped together in logical implementations, using word associations, so that users can more quickly learn the key-press sequences and locations.

The basic structure is commonly known as a “Chord Keyboard” because of the similarity of pressing more than one key to produce a musical “Chord” on an instrument. Some other “Chord keyboard” designs have previously been developed to provide input, some with seven keys, some with twelve, and others with twenty or more. Most of these keyboards were designed for keying operations using only one hand. This chord system that has been designed to relate to the natural human element of ten fingers for two handed typing, but also may be deployed in convenient designs for one handed utilization. Although many experts agree that “chording” is the most efficient way to provide input, the most simple, logical method had eluded discovery. Until now!

The IN10DID system may be deployed on a cellphone keypad, a video game controller, the edge of a PDA or Tablet PC, a car steering wheel, on a TV remote control or even on a watch! It will provide computer input on home appliances with less wasted space and fewer components. It may soon provide connected, glove-based operations, in the field, underwater or in outer space!

The limits to where a keyboard can be used, just got smaller! Take a look at this!