Crocodile Keyboard Tries To Snap Up Sales On Android Market

British inventor develops space saving triangular keyboard for touch screen phones

David Baker is an inventor from the UK who has just launched a triangle based qwerty keyboard that helps to hit the right keys on small touch screen devices running on Android.

Many people still complain that smartphones now rely too much on predictive text to make up for the small, fiddly and cramped standard keyboard.

A simple to use replacement keyboard that helps the user to hit the correct key seems to have eluded manufacturers until now.

Mr Baker’s pat pending solution is to change the tightly packed square keys to a triangular key layout. The keys sit on staggered rows and leave triangular shaped spaces around each key, making it difficult to hit two keys at the same time.

The use of colour is also incorporated into the design to maximise the separation effect between key and background.

When asked what makes your keyboard so different, Mr Baker 44 replied, “The keys really stand out from each other and it gives people with large fingers or poor eyesight a lot of confidence when they start to use it, especially as each person can set up a colour scheme that suits them. During our research, we never received the same colour request from over a hundred people”.
After spending a year researching feedback and comments from users of the first prototype developed with help from Brighton University, it was shown that the use of colour was just as important as the crocodile teeth shaped of the keys.

Mr Baker has just finished working with London based Intellectsoft Ltd to produce the second generation keyboard called CK2, now available on the Android market.

His an artistic background helped having been trained as a stone carver with English Heritage, most recently he was part of the team responsible for the restoration of the Brighton Pavilion which took six years to complete.
He has even converted a single decker bus into a motorhome so that he could stay down in Brighton while working during the week rather than travel from Goudhurst where he lives.

Previous projects of this serial inventor prior to the keyboard include the Land Shark amphibious vehicle that Mr Baker and his team saw through to a fully granted US patent and also a new type of lift.

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Crocodile Keyboards Ltd
12 Romney Place
Maidstone, Kent
ME15 6LE
Website: www.crocodilekeyboards.com
Email: info@crocodilekeyboards.com

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