Canesta, Inc, has introduced a new projection keyboard for mobile devices. The Canesta keyboard creates a full-sized keyboard and mouse out of "thin air" through projected beams of light. Canesta’s revolutionary “electronic perception technology” is then used to track user’s finger movements in three dimensions as the user types on the image of a keyboard, projected on any flat surface in front of the mobile device.

Canesta planned incorporation of the technology in mobile devices could eliminate the need for the awkward input methods traditionally used in mobile devices. The only requirement for the system to work is a flat surface in front of the mobile device onto which the image of the keyboard may be projected.

With the increasing movement towards full desktop functionality with mobile devices the Canesta keyboard is an advantage because it allows for a full sized keyboard without adding too much in the way of size.