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Sunday, September 7, 2008

Hawang Mouse: Is it an asset for Chinese only?


It’s tough when we have 26 characters to play around for writing a mail or otherwise. But the complexity of characters is beyond imagination when we think of constructing something meaningful with Chinese alphabets.

For penning down the mail, Hanwang’s latest mouse offers an ordinary way to keying in text with the help of built-in top-mounted screen that accepts handwritten input via the integrated stylus. Hanwang Technology have made use of a mouse together with a handwriting input to solve the limited special-character keys problem on keyboards. Now its possible to write chinese alphabets by drawing out the character into the middle of the mouse with the provided stylus, and it will translate into a text.

This allows the user to simply write a alphabet, which the recognition system of the mouse picks up. Realising the difficulty to type chinese characters on an English keyboard, It seems Hanwang mouse is a nice idea.


No word on pricing or availability as yet, but we’re still not entirely convinced about is convenience for penning a dissertation. The question remains can we expect these conceptual mouse in other dialects as well?

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