Microsoft introduced a new keyboard model

Microsoft is working on creating a keyboard that recognizes user gestures to turn the traditional keyboard into a 3-in-1 multipurpose device.

This keyboard was introduced by Microsoft at the Computer and Human Interaction Conference held in Toronto, Canada. Equipped with up to 64 sensors along keystrokes, the Microsoft keyboard pattern can recognize the movement of the hand, both overhead and on the key. This makes the keyboard able to hold the mouse and touch screen functions as well. For example, when users swipe their hands on the left-to-right key, the Windows 8 menu will also switch in the same direction.

According to Stuart Taylor, a Microsoft engineer, the purpose of creating the keyboard model above is to help users not to leave their keyboard when performing tasks on a computer, as well as performing operations. gestures to replace the touch screen. Some users' hand-dancing "gestures can replace shortcuts, such as Alt + Tab keys to switch between applications.

Taylor said the keyboard could understand some gestures and is continuing to add other gestures. The secret of the smartness of the keyboard lies in the 64 sensors lining the button. These sensors go together in pairs. A sensor will emit infrared and the other senses the reflected ray after touching the hand. By analyzing the reflected signals, the smart keyboard can perform some touch tasks that the traditional keyboard "loses".

Taylor's team has been researching and developing this technology for the past year and a half and is continuing to improve it. Although there are no plans to commercialize the product yet, technologies like this will help Microsoft claim that its strength in the field of hardware in addition to its software field is respectable.