Microsoft Develops Analog Keyboard For Wearables, Solves Small Display Dilemma

MojoKid writes Have you ever tried hunting and pecking on a miniature keyboard that's been crammed onto a smartwatch's tiny display? Unless the tips of your fingers somehow resemble that of a stylus, you're in for a challenge. Interestingly enough, it's Microsoft that might have the most logical solution for typing on small size displays running Google's Android Wear platform. Microsoft's research division has built an analog keyboard prototype for Android Wear that eliminates the need to tap at tiny letters, and instead has you write them out. On the surface, such a solution seems like you'd be trading one tedious task for another, though a demo of the technology in action shows that this could be a promising solution — watch how fast the guy in the video is able to hammer out a response.

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Re:Again and again, rip and claim as their own

[morcego]

You are kidding, right? DEVELOPS Windows? Are you trying to shift the question for any particular reason?
Do you even know what "ripping someone else's technology" mean?

The whole concept of Windows based interface was around with Apple, NEC, Xerox (which is also where the mouse comes from) and a couple others before Microsoft adopted it (and claimed they created it). Notice that Microsoft doesn't say they improved it, or "took it one step further". They claim to have created it.

Do your homework, please.

Re:Again and again, rip and claim as their own

[Lussarn]

Microsoft never claimed to have created the first mouse or any of the other things you listed. You're delusional...