HP TECHNOLOGY FOR INDIANS

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday showed off new products and research tailored to our country, India, including a writing tablet that makes it easier to enter characters from two of our national languages into a computer. The square tablet, which HP dubbed the Gesture Keyboard, allows a computer user to use a penlike stylus to enter characters in Hindi and Kannada, two of India’s 14 national languages. The 6-inch-by-6-inch device was previewed in the country a couple of weeks ago. HP plans to offer updates so it will eventually serve speakers of additional languages.