Soldiers to Tweet the location of future enemy combatants?

Miniature qwerty keyboards have been popping up more and more recently across mobile devices of all types in a move by manufacturers to cater to the growing trend of texters, mobile emailers, and social butterflies. The military often treads a very different path. While their technology and gadgets are still top of the line and current, the gadgets themselves when based off of consumer electronics are often a few generations behind the curve. It seems the military is finally coming into the modern era with the iKey AK-39 snap on, wrist mounted qwerty keyboard. Fat fingered, glove wearing soldiers shouldn’t have a problem with this souped up keyboard that is built to take a beating. According to the manufacturer:

“The AK-39’s small-footprint design features essential components for military and public safety applications, including an integrated Force Sensing ResistorTM (FSR) pointing device with left- and right-click functionality, and adjustable green LED backlighting that is also available in a night vision (NVIS) compatible configuration. Designed with gloved users in mind, the AK-39’s snap-on faceplate eliminates accidental key strokes and can be easily removed to clean the pad.

One other notable mention includes MIL-461 compliance ensuring you precious military edition keyboard can take the harsh realities and punishments twittering on the battlefield will bring forth. Hip hip hooray!

Source: CrunchGear, iKey