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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. 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/

  2. 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.