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Multi-Touch Keyboard Technology

Posted by timothy on from the no-click-typing dept.

PhoenxHwk writes "University of Delaware's webpage is running a story on the new Multi-Touch Keyboard by Fingerworks. This was on Slashdot once before, but the product is no longer vapor! Fingerworks's products are gesture-based keyboard-and-mouse "surfaces" that require zero force to work with - they are hailed as a product to both combat RSI and make working more efficient."

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  1. Re:great product by jtdubs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now, I'm just talking here, but...

    Why do you need the keyboard fixed in place on this thing? Why do you need keys with boundaries?

    It seems as though this thing could just make the keyboard be wherever the hands feel like being. Wherever you put your hands on the pad, that's where the keyboard is.

    If you have the hands resting in the touch-type position, regardless of position on the pad, and the left index-finger is depressed, type an 'F'.

    If an area is tapped that is just a bit above and to the left of the left middle finger, type an 'E'.

    Just put your hands down and do the motion of typing, no need to line anything up.

    Or, is this how it already works? Or, is this a bad idea and I'm just a fool?

    Justin Dubs