Eleksen Unveils Wireless Keyboard at CES; ElekTex(R) Smart Fabric Portable Keyboard Now Available; Also Offered for OEM/Branding Opportunities

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2006--Eleksen Ltd., one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of smart fabrics for an extensive range of consumer products, today announced the availability of its ElekTex(R) Smart Fabric wireless keyboard in the United States. Designed for Smart phones, PDAs and handheld devices, the keyboard supports easy access to email, document editing, texting and mobile web browsing, and is lightweight, portable, and full laptop-sized. The product is currently on display in Booth 72230 at the Sands.

The new lightweight and flexible keyboard designed for portable computing and communications devices uses Bluetooth(R) connectivity, is 100% fabric, water-repellent, super durable, and comes with a mobile phone/PDA stand. Weighing 2.4oz, the standard ElekTex keyboard design is the most portable keyboard on the market and it can be rolled up when not in use to fit easily in a pocket or handbag.

“We've designed this product with the business person on the go in mind so it's the perfect companion product for the highly mobile worker who wants to use a lightweight computer like a PDA or Smart phone to stay in contact with their office and their customers”

"We've designed this product with the business person on the go in mind so it's the perfect companion product for the highly mobile worker who wants to use a lightweight computer like a PDA or Smart phone to stay in contact with their office and their customers," said Product Manager Andrew Newman. "Where existing key pads on many Smart phones and PDAs make typing anything longer than a short message impractical and uncomfortable, we've designed the laptop-sized ElekTex fabric keyboard to allow consumers to easily and more comfortably type longer documents on their phones and handheld devices - making these new portable devices more usable."

The keyboard is available now for distributors and retailers in the U.S. to be sold through their Smart phone peripherals and accessories businesses. It can be customized to meet the branding requirements of the smallest and largest distributors, retailers and wireless network carriers. It can also be styled to fit the corporate identity of large enterprise users who find that the ElekTex keyboard fits their strategy of creating a more fully functional, mobile workforce.

The keyboard's standard design includes a charcoal gray fabric keyboard and the electronics plastic housing has an embedded LED to show keyboard status and Bluetooth connectivity status.

Newman continues, "The ElekTex Smart Fabric wireless keyboard truly displays the benefits of Eleksen's core technology for consumer product design. Our product is the most lightweight, flexible, portable, and exceptionally durable keyboard on the market. Working with smart fabric interfaces offers product developers a compelling and highly differentiated product, perfect for the highly competitive computer peripherals and accessories sectors. In addition, we offer the underlying electronics and sensor design to OEMs and ODMs for use in their own keyboard product developments."

The Eleksen smart keyboard sensor, electronics and Bluetooth interface is available for entities interested in designing or manufacturing their own, branded smart fabric keyboard interfaces for the growing market of highly portable and mobile computing devices. This reference design can be scaled to support different keypad sizes and covering materials. For more information about Eleksen offerings, please visit www.eleksen.com.

About Eleksen Eleksen Ltd. is the world leader in touch sensitive interactive textiles for electronics interface design. The company's core technology, ElekTex(R), is a unique electro-conductive fabric touch pad optimized for the creation of flexible, durable and rugged fabric touch screen interfaces. ElekTex(R) is used in applications ranging from wearable electronic controls for consumer electronics and industrial wear to lightweight, low-power touch interfaces for CE accessories, telematics, military, transportation and space suits. It replaces the hard touch pads, flexi-circuits and polymer switches which have limited the growth of the wearable electronics markets. Eleksen licenses ElekTex(R) and reference design to manufacturers for use in custom electronics design and also markets a range of ready-to-integrate solutions for garment, bags and accessories manufacturers.

The company is backed by an impressive list of investors: 3i, MTI, MVI, Siemens Venture Capital, Vesta Capital Partners and Wireless Frontiers. Eleksen is headquartered in Pinewood Studios near London, England and in Waltham, Massachusetts near Boston.