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Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable

Posted by timothy on from the anything-that-helps dept.

As someone targeted for perpetual failure by the designers of most keyboards, I'm happy to read The Register's report that "A British inventor has submitted a patent application for a wacky touchscreen keyboard design which, he claims, could spell the end for accidental key presses."

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  1. The Best Thing To Do by sycodon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is to get rid of the damned, usless, pain in the ass keycaps key.

    As for the keyboard itself, seems I've seen that in some si-fi movie.

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  2. Apple is, or should be, FAR ahead of this... by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...based on the IP they acquired from FingerWorks. You can do really sophisticated error-correction if you're getting not only a stream of characters, but the exact location of the press, contact area, dwell time, and possibly more. So, with a virtual multi-touch keyboard, you can say "Okay, that looked like an R, but the contact was actually most of the way over toward E, and the previous two letters were T-H, so I'm going to go ahead and make it an E."

    I know it'll rankle the manual-transmission crowd, but I've been using a FingerWorks keyboard for years, and most of the time, it's absolutely spooky how well the autocorrect works. (Just don't try high-intensity vi work.)

  3. Klingon Keyboard? by RandomChars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This reminds me of the klingon displays from startrek