These very cool Eleksen fabric keyboard concepts were talked about back at Origami launch time. Unfortunately there’s still no-one that’s taken the concept and put it into production.

Glyn Evans of PocketPC-Solutions in the UK has one for testing and seems happy with it so why are we still waiting? You could easily make one that works with all UMPC devices. I’d buy one if it was in a messenger bag style as shown below because If it works well, its solve the problem of case/keyboard in one go. If it was branded by, say, Freitag and had the keyboard and a electro-luminous display strip on the outside then you’d have a fashion winner on your hands if you ask me. Better still, how about one with a cam window and a display unit that says “Smile, press Enter, then enter phone number.”

[Images from the Freitag website. Cool bags.]

Thanks to PocketPC-Solutions for the images. More images in the gallery.

Steve /Chippy.