{"id":55093,"date":"2014-04-23T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=55093"},"modified":"2014-04-23T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T07:04:44","slug":"minuum-keyboard-omate","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/minuum-keyboard-omate","title":{"rendered":"Minuum Strikes Partnership to Put Its Unique Keyboard on Omate Smartwatches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 11px 33px;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2923\/13982929032_2988b3b78f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"190\" \/>The Minuum keyboard is now available on the Omate TrueSmart, a standalone smartwatch that launched in December 2013 after raising $1 million on Kickstarter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Capable of being either a smartphone companion or a standalone device, the TrueSmart is now bolstered by Minuum, a Toronto-made virtual keyboard that also had a very successful crowdfunding campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Minuum and Omate just make sense together,&#8221; explains Laurent Le Pen, CEO of Omate. &#8220;Minuum&#8217;s compact design and intelligent algorithms make it a perfect keyboard for small screens. Typing with it is easy, fast, and exceptionally accurate. We&#8217;re bringing the truly smart keyboard and the truly smart watch together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Omate is the first smart watch to feature Minuum, which will be available for free to all current Omate users through the OStore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F7dT_UqyBAA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F7dT_UqyBAA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very excited to partner with the Omate smartwatch,&#8221; says Will Walmsley, founder of Minuum, &#8220;Omate is a leader in the field of standalone wearable technology, and Minuum will allow its users to take full advantage of features like messaging, immediately available on their wrist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minuum, previously known as Whirlscape, earlier this year raised $500,000 in funding from Y Combinator, FundersClub, and BDC Venture Capital, among other unnamed investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minuum keyboard is now available on the Omate TrueSmart, a standalone smartwatch that launched in December 2013 after raising $1 million on Kickstarter. Capable of being either a smartphone companion or a standalone device, the TrueSmart is now bolstered by Minuum, a Toronto-made virtual keyboard that also had a very successful crowdfunding campaign. &#8220;Minuum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":55095,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-55093","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/55093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/55093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/55095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55093"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=55093"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=55093"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=55093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}