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Keyboard Prototype
Date: Feb 14, 2005
Contributor: Jami Mastroianni
Keyboard prototype aids typing on cell phones, PDAs
Mark Grossmeyer believes he has an answer for those who struggle entering data on electronic hand-held devices such as cell phones or personal digital assistants (PDAs).
A self-described "serial inventor," Grossmeyer has developed a portable keyboard that connects to hand-held devices and allows users to type e-mails or text messages as if they were typing with a conventional keyboard.
The QuickThought keyboard allows for conventional typing.
The keyboard is mobile enough to carry in a pocket and unfolds into a conventional-sized keyboard. It is also optically transparent, which means a user can hold it and type on its backside. Grossmeyer concedes that typing on the back of a keyboard doesn't have real natural feel, but neither do many of the hand-held keyboard products on the market today, he said.
"I'm always thinking about how people can better interact with computers," he said.
Grossmeyer, who has worked at Johnson Controls Inc., Glendale, as a software engineer for 28 years, has a working prototype of the keyboard and is seeking a manufacturer or investor who can help take the product to market. A patent application was submitted to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in late 2004.
Verizon Wireless and Virgin Mobile expressed some interest in the device, but have declined to manufacture or implement it in their product lines.
"It's hard to get follow-through with big companies," Grossmeyer said.
Early inventions
Grossmeyer has been down this road before with several other inventions. In the mid-1990s, he created the VCR Co-Pilot, a device that helps people program their VCR.
In 1997, Grossmeyer sold patent rights of the Co-Pilot to Joseph Enterprises Inc., a product marketing firm in San Francisco that sells devices such as The Clapper and the Chia Pet. Nearly 1 million of the Co-Pilots have been sold in North America and Europe at an average price of $29.95. He declined to say how much revenue he has received from the sales.
Grossmeyer has also created a device called Accu-Trac that helps golfers improve their putting skills. The device was named Best New Product at the 2003 Professional Golf Association trade show. He is also working on several undisclosed projects for Rand McNally & Co., Lincolnwood, Ill.
"I love to come up with ideas and take them from concept to production," Grossmeyer said.
The QuickThought keyboard is the result of Grossmeyer's use of PDAs when they initially came to market in the late 1990s. After trying several keyboards operated by a user's thumbs, he still found it hard to enter data.
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