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Apple Patents Keyboard That Knows What You'll Type

Posted by samzenpus on from the future-board dept.

fysdt writes "Another day, another patent, this one from Apple for a very curious sort of keyboard that might be easier to type on because it'll know in advance which keys your fingertips want to hit. No, not a device built by Emmett 'Doc' Brown (as far as we know, anyway), or pulled back through time in a TARDIS—just a very special type of board with tiny inbuilt tactile sensors capable of detecting what your spider-formation fingers are about to tap before they actually do."

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  1. Quoting the immortal words from Star Trek III... by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Quoting the immortal words of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott: "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
    A keyboard should be just that, a keyboard. All other stuff in this patent is just overthinking the plumbing.

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  2. Re:Quoting the immortal words from Star Trek III.. by 19thNervousBreakdown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yep, the keyboards we have now are perfect, and there's no reason to incrementally improve them. Why, when it comes time to use something better, it'll be okay that it's completely different because we'll all just jump to that en-masse. I mean, what, is some totally new input system going to have unforeseen consequences? Hah! That'll be the day!

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  3. Re:Quoting the immortal words from Star Trek III.. by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We don't need a newer, better kind of keyboard. We need an older, better kind of keyboard!

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