Special keyboard for disabled users

Physically disabled computer users will have a slightly easier go of it from today, as Lomak International releases a keyboard designed to increase their input speeds.

The keyboard, designed by an Auckland University of Technology student, Mike Watling, receives signals from a hand-operated pointer or a low-powered laser attached to a headband or cap worn by the user. The company says the keyboard allows disabled users to achieve regular typing speeds.

AUT has so far bought five of the keyboards.