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UP THE
VALUE
LADDERi.Tech Dynamic has earned a reputation as a top flight manufacturer of digital electronic devices;
now it’s raising its own brand profile.
By Mark Caldwell
I f ever there was an ideal product to launch
a consumer-electronics brand, the Virtual Keyboard
must surely be it.
To see the Virtual Keyboard in action is to glimpse the
future. Not much bigger than a matchbox, this
astonishing device projects an infrared image of
a full-sized keyboard on to any flat surface. It can be
linked to mobile phones, laptops or PDAs via a wire-free
Bluetooth connection, giving users all the benefits of
a keyboard without the hassle of having to haul
one around.
The Virtual Keyboard is one of the first in a range of
cutting-edge consumer electronics devices bearing the
i.Tech brand name. It is a name the world is likely to be
hearing a lot more of. Invented by Israeli company
VKB Inc, i.Tech then successfully finished off the indus-
trial design of the Virtual Keyboard,
made it possible to manufacture
it commercially in volume, and
secured the first sales in the UK in
August this year.
Since its establishment in 2002
as a division of well-known
toy manufacturer Hutchison
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