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Friday July 14, 2006
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 Most of us have an easy time typing our names on standard keyboards. But what if your name were Walter Olùwolè? I just had to type Walter's name in Word, insert two special characters, and paste it into this post--all because I don't have a Konyin multilingual keyboard.
Walter (I'll just call him that from now on) is one of the founders of Lancor Technologies and is also from Nigeria. He and his partner recognized the limitations of a traditional QWERTY keyboard when it came to his native language, and created a dual-shift layout that lets you directly type letters with tonal marks, without going through what I just did. The keyboards range from $37.99 to $98.99, depending on how many languages they can accomodate, whether they're wireless, etc. Cool idea.
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July 14, 2006 6:28 PM
Actually, you don't have to go through all that to type accented characters, at least in Word. There are shortcuts like Ctrl-' for the é accent, etc.
July 14, 2006 8:52 PM
Very nice. it's really a great idea. I took Spanish in college and what a pain it was to try and type an essay.
July 16, 2006 3:36 PM
I actually had to get one of the KONYIN multilingual keyboards from their website; www.konyin.com. It makes typing significantly easier for me since i type in English, Spanish and Portuguese. I actually used to do what Dmitriy stated in his comments above. The reality for me is to be able to type in a more natural way than to keep using my CTRL- XXXX list or Insert symbols in MS word; whenever i am typing in Spanish or Portuguese. This is a great time saver. It makes sense and its a big relief. Carlos