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8pen Reinvents the Keyboard For Mobile Devices

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

An anonymous reader submitted linkage to a company called 8pen that has a new take on one-handed input. I've attached the video if you click the link below, but it's a strange idea using outward spreading swipes that somewhat mimics handwriting. It ships for Android tomorrow, but even if you don't want to try it out, it's an interesting idea for anyone who is tired of finger tapping on a tiny screen.

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  1. Video? by Yvan256 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What link below? There's only a link to 8pen's website.

    1. Re:Video? by Combatso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      see the big video link, just below... that one.. also the link in the summary has a giant "PLAY VIDEO!" button

    2. Re:Video? by Yvan256 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      There's nothing after "finger tapping on a tiny screen."

    3. Re:Video? by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You either don't have Flash, or your adblocker is fucking it up.

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    4. Re:Video? by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I browse with Flash disabled. When someone says "there's a link to the video", it should be a link to the video, not the video itself.

      It also uses the old, deprecated embed tag, which embeds a (probably) H.264 video inside a Flash player when Safari is capable of playing the video file by itself.

    5. Re:Video? by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Video which is hosted on YouTube on top of it all. It would have been easier to link directly to YouTube.

    6. Re:Video? by Combatso · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      dont know what to tell you man... other than 'you arent missing much'.

    7. Re:Video? by Kilrah_il · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hey, he is missing the most insightful opening sentence I heard in years: "Computers used to be big, now they are small". How is that for +5 Insightful?

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    8. Re:Video? by Combatso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      are you disputing that fact? I have also noticed this trend.

    9. Re:Video? by Kilrah_il · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, I put it in the "No shit, sherlock"-sort of insightful.

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    10. Re:Video? by B4light · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I think it is correlated to the number of Somalian pirates

  2. Re:An Anonymous Reader Submitted This?? by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The fact that it's the same broken, deprecated "embed tag" for the video in both the summary and the company website is also a mere coincidence.

  3. Common question by SnarfQuest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What porn site are you playing with?

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