Keyboards
As much as I love my apple keyboards, they are very noisy, and well, QWERTY!?.
The iPhone's use of multitouch, I believe brought to us via the Mac Book, changed the rules of what was possible. They didn't add a button with their logo to the keyboard, instead they got rid of all the buttons. So the multitouch magic of drag, bounce and swipe make up for the difficulty of typing. They touted it as smart, but it doesn't always seem that way.
So while playing games is fun, swiping through lists & feeds feels great, and surfing the net is the best, we're left with a !@^* qwerty keyboard.
I'm dissapointed in Apple for not banishing qwerty with ios.
I know there's a better solution if you think about the problem with a clean slate. Obviously a keyboard interface designed in 1878 might not suit a touchscreen. I suppose I could work on this problem myself considering no one else seems to give a crap, except someone named Dvorak. Otherwise this is the coolest keyboard alternative I've seen, even among all the gaming consoles, cell phones and even the game controller style keyboards, is Dasher. It uses probability to determine the next letter you want to type. You move through a stream of letters as you go, choosing the ones you want to build words. Terrific idea even four years ago when I first saw it. I'm especially interested in how fitting it would be for use with eye tracking and the upcoming Google Goggles.
Also if Apple could crack the keyboard problem with ios they could get rid of roughly 80 buttons and the trackpad from the Mac. Replace them with an iPad, or just a multitouch screen that you can build words with.
I realize this could be prototyped easily and hope to find someone doing just that on kickstarter. Come on Apple! Also, are you really going to let Google have an Eye Phone before you?
The iPhone's use of multitouch, I believe brought to us via the Mac Book, changed the rules of what was possible. They didn't add a button with their logo to the keyboard, instead they got rid of all the buttons. So the multitouch magic of drag, bounce and swipe make up for the difficulty of typing. They touted it as smart, but it doesn't always seem that way.
So while playing games is fun, swiping through lists & feeds feels great, and surfing the net is the best, we're left with a !@^* qwerty keyboard.
I'm dissapointed in Apple for not banishing qwerty with ios.
I know there's a better solution if you think about the problem with a clean slate. Obviously a keyboard interface designed in 1878 might not suit a touchscreen. I suppose I could work on this problem myself considering no one else seems to give a crap, except someone named Dvorak. Otherwise this is the coolest keyboard alternative I've seen, even among all the gaming consoles, cell phones and even the game controller style keyboards, is Dasher. It uses probability to determine the next letter you want to type. You move through a stream of letters as you go, choosing the ones you want to build words. Terrific idea even four years ago when I first saw it. I'm especially interested in how fitting it would be for use with eye tracking and the upcoming Google Goggles.
Also if Apple could crack the keyboard problem with ios they could get rid of roughly 80 buttons and the trackpad from the Mac. Replace them with an iPad, or just a multitouch screen that you can build words with.
I realize this could be prototyped easily and hope to find someone doing just that on kickstarter. Come on Apple! Also, are you really going to let Google have an Eye Phone before you?