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A couple of weeks after chip-maker Intel announced a computer specifically for the Indian market, technology major Hewlett Packard has launched a new type of keyboard that significantly speeds up typing Indian languages. The gesture keyboard GSK, developed at HP8217;s Bangalore research laboratories, has just gone on sale in India and consists of a pen and touch-sensitive pad that allows users to select from a grid of consonants and then modify them quickly with a pen stroke. This key board will reduce the difficulty of using standard qwerty-style keyboards for more than 18 Indic languages. 8220;For anyone who knows how to write on paper, it takes just 15 to 20 minutes to learn the gesture keyboard,8221; said Shekhar Borgaonkar, one of the researchers behind the device. The keyboard can be used to write Hindi, Marathi and Kannada and can be used by any machine running Windows or Linux.
