How does the EkaPad compare to the CyKey chording keyboard?
A. There are significant differences between the EkaPad and the CyKey. CyKey info taken from the CyKey web site. These are some of the points you should consider: 1. The EkaPad has all 240 plus an additional 34, characters, symbols, commands and functions. The CyKey has a reduced set. The EkaPad can produce all the characters a Mac keyboard can, and can produce all the characters a Windows keyboard can, including all the Alt NNNN characters without Alt and numbers, using the same chords as the Mac for the same characters. 2. The EkaPad can store 100 keyboard shortcuts (up to 4 command/control chords each) and can store 100 different long and short alphabetic strings (up to a total of 50,000 characters). The CyKey doesn’t have user controlled memory. 3. The CyKey has a battery. This makes it sort of portable. It transmits via infrared – this is good as it can work with Palm PDAs, which the EkaPad doesn’t. The EkaPad is a USB device and runs off the computer battery. The CyKey battery ad
