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Microsoft's Adaptive Touchscreen Keyboard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-some-research-on dept.

ramandeeps noted a Microsoft research project on an adaptive keyboard that is essentially a touchscreen that updates to make it easier to keep complex keybindings to a minimum. This is part of the 2010 Student Innovation Contest, so if you want one and happen to be a student, you can sign up to do research on the device.

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  1. Seen before ... by Misagon · · Score: 1, Informative

    Haven't we seen this before?

    I'm not only referring to having seen this kind of technology in a keyboard before.

    I am also asking, have we not seen before, time and time again, Microsoft copying someone else's technology and claiming it to be their own major exclusive new super-invention? ...

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    "We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
    1. Re:Seen before ... by wed128 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Kind of like that, except with transparent mechanical keys sitting on top.

  2. Enter By Tomorrow by andrewd18 · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the contest website:

    The goal of the contest is to develop new interactions on unique hardware that you cannot get anywhere else. We supply you with the special hardware and you show us how innovative you can be with it. ... To reserve a place in the contest and to receive an Adaptive keyboard for development, contestants must submit an entry email to the contest chair no later than August 17th, 2010.

    You also have to return the keyboard by October, so it's not yours forever. http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2010/Student_Contest.html