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Palm 'Molecular' Keyboard

Posted by michael on from the 50-taps-per-minute dept.

Frank writes: "Here's an interesting new Palm application I found over at PalmGear.com. It's a new technology from IBM research called ATOMIK, it potentially allows typing of faster than 40 words per minute by using a Metropolis optimization algorithm in which the special keyboard is treated as a "molecule" and each key as an "atom"."

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  1. Too bad you can't program C on it by MagicM · · Score: 2, Informative

    No curly braces / squiggly brackets / accolades

    1. Re:Too bad you can't program C on it by mgarraha · · Score: 3, Informative

      That's what the trigraphs are for. Just double-tap the question mark, consult a cheat sheet for the third character, and hope your compiler knows what to do with it.

  2. Quikwriting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm using quikwriting right now and its pretty good. I especially like the way the overlay works, you just print it out on a transparency and slide it in, which is much better than a sticker imo.

    Its probably slower than Fitaly and this keyboard but it does a pretty good job.

    http://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/

  3. Re:Yet another attempt to break away from QWERTY by jerrytcow · · Score: 2, Informative

    despite the proven inefficiencies of the layout

    Those inefficiencies are intentional. Early typewriters would jam if you typed too quickly, so an inefficient layout was designed that spread out the most common letters.