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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. Errr... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It detects fingers on keys before you press the key.

    Thats like predicting which way a car will turn at a junction by looking at it's indicator lights.

    1. Re:Errr... by kat_skan · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's the nice thing about Apple products though. If they don't do what you wanted, you can safely assume that what you wanted was just wrong.

    2. Re:Errr... by shadowfaxcrx · · Score: 3, Funny

      asdfjk;asdjk;lasdfjk;ladsfjk;lSo what happens if you rest your fingers on the keys between typing?asdfjkl;asdfjklasdfjkl;

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  2. Great! by DWMorse · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hop it work breaded than predictive testing.
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Re:Quoting the immortal words from Star Trek III.. by LeonPierre · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh god, not this again.

    http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/keyboards.html

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