Kensington Notebook Keypad and Calculator
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | Author: Arthur Matthew

Kensington USB Keypad

Kensington may have finally given accountants a reason to rejoice. In what has to be the closest thing to a USB adding machine ever created, Kensington has unveiled a Keypad/Calculator which is sure to be quickly adopted by any and all number crunchers. This USB peripheral which comes in the form of a standalone numeric keypad also carries with it 19-key financial calculator functions. The display is a run of the mill single line LCD screen. While they’re actually quite a few calculator keypads out there this is the first we’ve seen that actually integrates the two functions by the use of a “send key” which could send calculator results to the PC.

The keypad also sports a two port USB hub that will allow you to daisy chain other devices through it. since it doesn’t include its own power supply he will likely run into power problems connecting devices like extremely large hard drives or web cams. Low-power devices like mice, keyboards and flash drives should be just fine. The keypad should be plug-and-play on both Windows and Apple computers and can be had $30 and is available now.