Computer Takeaway - End user technical review.
Embedded Handhelds - at the very end he finds he can chord the EkaPad easily.
Announcements to the media and general public concerning the EkaTetra company, its products and services.
3/6/09 - Incredible shrinking keyboard. New advertisement; (PDF version).
10/15/08 - Computer Takeaway. Review of the chording EkaPad and the EkaPad Package.
8/31/08 - Portland, OR. Ekatetra releases version 2.2 of its EkaPad OS. (PDF version, 157kb).
8/20/06 - White Paper: About design of EkaPad. More details about the new EkaPad (PDF version, 1.95Mb).
7/11/06 - Portland, OR.Ekatetra launches the EkaPad, a pocketable, personal, single-handed USB keyboard.
Pangrams A pangram is a sentence which contains all 26 letters. These 53 sentences are all good English and contain no proper names, therefore making them harder to create. A fun way to practice chording with your EiaPad.
The Book of Four Letter Words Listings of 1758 four letter words in the English language. Prepared for programmers and human interface designers who need short words for menus and screen displays. Also of interest to grammarians and humorists.
On the Typewriter History page you will find four histories and many pictures of early typewriters.
Also, find 8 collected reviews of the book The Iron Whim, a history of typewriter people, and a sample from the book
Sexy Legs and Typewriters.
In addition, there's background information on Dvorak's keyboard design along with a discussion of path dependence with Dvorak's keyboard used as an example. Path dependence is an economic concept which concerns itself with whether or not a new product gets accepted and replaces an older product.
There is also a pdf containing other typewriter web links.
Keyboards today
Lists of current (as of Mar09) web sites about chording keyboards and qwerty keyboards.
Data used by EkaTetra during EkaPad chord selection and a report describing the final selections of chords and locations of characters.
About Letter & Word Frequencies Start here: A page with background information and links to downloadable data pages.
RSI (repetitive stress injuries). A listing in pdf format of links to places to visit to learn more about RSI (repetitive stress injuries) and AT (assistive technology). PDF file on RSI and AT
In 2000, George Forester invited Jerry Wilski to join him in an adventure to develop and market George's original invention of the keypad which eventually became the EkaPad.
In the 1980s, George was playing around with the idea of a pocketable computer. A main feature could be a keypad on the backside, played with the eight fingers as the palms of the hands held the computer between them. George was an amateur musician and recorder player and he easily envisioned how this keying could work.
Founder and CEO
Co-founder and Vice-president
Senior Software Engineer
CIO and Director Informatics R&D
Operations Advisor
Financial Advisor
Human Computer Interaction Researcher,
Carnegie Mellon University
Reference Capital Management
Professional Engineer (ret.)
