[olug] A Bluetooth adapter to use an "regular" USB keyboard with a bluetooth device?

[Dan Clough]

Buy the iPad Camera Connection kit.  It comes with two adaptors, one for SD and one for USB.  It snaps into the dock port and makes the iPad fully compatible with USB keyboards.  $30 if I remember right.

Dan

On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> An elderly neighbor just got an iPad and she really loves it, especially
> receiving e-mail from her kids, grand-kids, and great-grandkids.
> Unfortunatly due to arthritis, she can't really use the on-screen keyboard.
> 
> She *is* still able to use larger physical keyboards, but all of the
> bluetooth equipped keyboards I've seen are very small, no tactile feed-back,
> and have small lettering.
> 
> I'm toying with purchasing a high-visiblity keyboard (
> http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=54760) and some sort of
> blue-tooth "box" that will take the keyboard and make it available to the
> iPad.
> 
> Has anyone seen such a box?
> 
> Thanks,
> DanL
> 
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