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Wireless keyboard

computer keyboard wirelessly connected to a computer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ1474507
Source-derived summary

A wireless keyboard is a computer keyboard that allows the user to communicate with computers, tablets, or laptops with the help of wireless technologies such as radio frequency (RF), WiFi, Bluetooth, or infrared (IR) technology.

Wireless keyboards based on infrared technology use light waves to transmit signals to other infrared-enabled devices. In case of radio frequency technology, a wireless keyboard communicates using signals which range from 27 MHz to up to 2.4 GHz. The majority of wireless keyboards today work on 2.4 GHz radio frequency. Bluetooth is another technology that is being widely used by wireless keyboards. These devices connect and communicate with their parent device via the Bluetooth protocol.

A wireless keyboard can be connected using RF technology with the help of two parts: a transmitter and a receiver. The radio transmitter is inside the wireless keyboard. The radio receiver plugs into a keyboard port or USB port. Once the receiver and transmitter are plugged in, the computer recognizes the keyboard and mouse as if they were connected via a cable.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Wireless keyboard” as computer keyboard wirelessly connected to a computer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wireless, keyboard and computer.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 172-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wireless, keyboard and computer providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Wireless keyboard”, the useful work is to connect “computer keyboard wirelessly connected to a computer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1474507. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Wireless keyboard” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.