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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. Re:innovation by Windows+Breaker+G4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yup, that's what it is a worthless piece of hardware.

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  2. Re:A compromise that does nothing particularly wel by JasterBobaMereel · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's likely to cost much more than a real keyboard,

    Be slower than a real keyboard,

    Cannot be touchtyped (no feedback)

    So all the downsides of a touchscreen interface with none of the advantages ....

    The Optimus keyboard had the right idea - real keyboard with reconfigurable labels ,,,,

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  3. Microsoft fails again to make ACTUAL products... by dafing · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have a Windows developer friend (we all have one), and every now and then he'll come up with some hair brained tweet/email, "see, look at the cool stuff Microsoft is doing!" I got glowing reviews of the Zune, Vista, that Songsmith thing, Surface....and now THIS keyboard... He also informs me the new Internet Explorer is going to "kick ass!" and Windows Phone 7 is "amazing"...

    Meanwhile, after spending who knows what into crap like the Zune, Surface and now THIS, why is none of it made into something SUCCESSFUL? Microsoft sees touch sensitive (even if its a strip) screens, and gives the world THIS, or the Surface... meanwhile, Apple, Google, they give us iPhones, iPads and Android devices which are (not quite) literally flying off the shelves!

    I'm actually embarrassed for Microsoft at this point, what the hell is wrong with that company? They cant even make quick knockoffs anymore.

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