Ergonomic keyboard, Touchstream FingerWorks
date: label: date made
content: ca 2002
name: label: maker
content: FingerWorks
notes: label: Description
content: This keyboard employs ergonomic principles and multi-touch technology to detect gestures from multiple contact points on the surface of the device, allowing for low-impact typing. FingerWorks was founded by John Elias and Wayne Westerman in 1998 at the University of Delaware. The company developed hardware and software for gesture recognition input. Elias and Wanyne sold the company and their patents to Apple Inc. in 2005, and much of their research informed the multi-touch surface technology in the Apple iPhone.
label: Description
content: For related materials, see 2019.3010.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gregory Playle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0028.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0028
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0028.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: keyboard
label: Object Name
content: keyboard, ergonomic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 16 in x 8 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 40.64 cm x 22.225 cm
label: Measurements
content: usb component: 4 ft; 1.2192 m