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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. cue Buddy Holly by budr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That'll be the day.

  2. Re:The Best Thing To Do by GenP · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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

    The new term is SyFy .

  3. Re:The Best Thing To Do by sycodon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I remember reading an interview many years ago with Ray Bradbury or one of the other leading authors of the time. In it he described the most irritating things that interviewers do.

    First, is to ask where they get their ideas from.

    The second, was to call their genre of books "SiFi". It's called "Science Fiction", he said.

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    When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
  4. Maybe we won't need autocorretion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Great. Now lets get this dang iPhone to stop replacing the words I type. This always results to unnecessary text messaging where I have to explain myself. "What?"