What is FrogPad??

• The FrogPad is the first one handed keyboard which has 20 regular sized keys with the most common letters on them. 

• In order to get to the rest of the alphabet a user just has to hit a button.

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Is the normal keyboard not good enough???

Sometimes a person who has a neurological or physical impairment loses function of certain body parts. These people could not access recent technologies because they couldn’t efficiently use a keyboard. The FrogPad is changing all of that!

It’s Technology Friendly!

• FrogPad now works with Bluetooth so that it can offer even more flexibility to its customers by being wireless.

• It can also hook up to any other device using a USB port.

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Anyone can use it…

• The way the way the keys are laid out FrogPad boasts that a person can learn to type as fast as 40 WPM in only 6-10 hours! 

• The FrogPad is also easy to afford it’s only $149.99.

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But I’m left handed!

FrogPad makes keyboards for both the left and right hands so the side of the disability does not matter.

So many benefits

• Having the entire keyboard available on one hand enables an entire new population of people to be able to access new technologies like the internet. 

• FrogPad is compatible with virtually all new technology.• Anyone can learn how to use it, left or right handed

Citations

• Costlow, T. (2004). A LEAP forward in portable data entry. [Electronic version]. Design news, 60(2), 48-51.

• GADGETS [Electronic version]. (2004). IEE review, 50(2), 28-29. from Academic search premier.