Also: Touch typing on the full size iPad is extremely pleasant, and not bad on the mini. Screen real estate is quickly reclaimed when you quit typing. It's nice to have the same text input interface between your laptop and tablet.
For those who want to apply this technique, it's built into GarageBand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulfKubMdxPA
I don't find it especially pleasant. The keyboard takes up more than half of the screen, and typing quickly on it is much more difficult than any regular keyboard (though much better than any phone keyboard naturally). I hooked up on a Bluetooth keyboard to it once and felt an incredible relief at the effortlessness compared to on-screen typing. There's much that can be improved.
I am not backing this and it is getting ridiculous. And video, there should be Bootstrap for Kickstarter videos, a template you can just add to.
I would be happy to try this out when it comes out. I expect it will not work for me as I am bilingual and those keyboards only work well for english. But good luck, don't spend all the money at one place.
Honestly, and I really wish you all best, but I think this is abuse of what kickstarter and indiegogo were for.
It takes time to make software. Backing gives you the money to dedicate time.
In my opinion there is no reason why they couldn't start with a first beta for android (payed app) and interrate from there.
If more people like it, they'll buy it.
Kickstarter/etc. is just marketing, i hate the development of this "strategy" for software.
I use Messagease on my phone. It took me around a week to get to 30 WPM. With two fingers it's possible to have around 50 WPM.
If you are looking for alternative keyboards, I recommend to try it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exideas.me...
But I just bought a new Motorola Photon Q with slide-out physical keyboard. I love it already. It seems much faster than Swype or SwiftKey (subjectively, at least; I haven't attempted speed measurements).
It just pisses me off immensely.
Actually, from all the Samsung stuff on the device this one is by far the best. The rest is meh or useless or downright pointless, yet I like the keyboard.
Only gripe is that it uses the same dictionary for all languages. Which can be useful, at times.
I think I need a little more sunshine, I must be low on Vitamin D.
That's how technology moves. Ground-breaking technology becomes a commodity, often laying the foundation for bigger innovations to take place.
Android 4.2.2 comes with a swipe keyboard by default. I have it on my Nexus 7--I don't use it all the time, but it's useful when I am tired or I want to type longer sentences.
It's sad in a way - I also thought it'd be on every phone, but it looks now like that's more likely to happen via the same functionality being built into other keyboards rather than Swype doing it themselves.
I seem to remember some one-handed keyboard projects (hardware and software) were killed because of patent encumbrance.
Dasher's seems like it fits better with continuous/'analogue' input methods, though (it uses inherently continuous input, Minuum's just using the analogue entry systems to simulate a single-row keyboard).
[1] home: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
gif showing the concept: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/images/largedasher...
play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dasher.android
1. It's inherently slow. It just takes a long time to get from one letter to the next, even when you're following along the expected path.
2. It's exceptionally distracting to see alternate expected words pop up along your way as you type, and I find it tends to derail my line of thought.
Sometimes I just turn it on full speed and swipe at a random angle to the right and let it fly through the infinite dictionary, watching a deterministic gibberish story unfold.
Frogpad was a one handed keyboard.
The Twiddler was another which is probably a good fit for Google Glass. (http://youtu.be/gS8wGePlknM?t=1m19s) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzgJR8uAQvc) -- but note that Twiddler2 was about $200.
My problem with keyboards that rely too heavily on autocomplete is that it makes it too hard to use the web. Email addresses, domain names, and passwords aren't going to be in the autocomplete dictionary.
For example, you want to write the word 'and', you press the sequence 'ABC', then 'MNO' and lastly 'DEF'. Then it creates the word 'and'.
I haven't found something like that in American phones, albeit I use an iPhone now. It's more intuitive than it sounds and it makes texting a lot faster.
If anybody can bring more input about this happening in English phone keyboards is welcome to do so. (It also might have a name that I am not aware of)
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)
But I think "practical" is the wrong word for the advantages of both of those technologies (separately and also in combination). "Powerful" seems more to-the-point.
Myo requires specialized hardware. ASETNIOP requires specialized training. Minuum doesn't require the former (beyond an accelerometer), and almost none of the latter.
I think Minuum would combine well with Myo.
Links for the curious+lazy:
Reinventing text entry/editing is something I've always wanted to do/see done. Wish there were more solutions that weren't based off of QWERTY, though. I realize it's been the standard since the typewriter, but if we really want to see huge gains in speed and efficiency, we should shift away from it.
What's hard is adapting to entirely different layouts such as Dvorak (which, by the way, could probably increase autocorrect accuracy greatly).
If at some point an input method that is faster and more efficient than QWERTY gains real traction and is taught or exposed to our youth, I'd expect a shift away from what's become convention.
This is by no means something that will just happen overnight, but I'd be a little saddened if in the last years of my life, QWERTY remains as the dominant method of text input. It's certainly a good solution, but no where near an optimal one.
Otherwise, it looks interesting, but I am a bit skeptical. good luck to the dev team
It is interesting that they are using QWERTY. Im curious if thats a decision based on trying to gain acceptance. It seems that if you're looking to really reinvent user input, theres likely a more ideal layout.
If it got still less info -- particularly as this is being developed with far fewer developer resources than Swype and SwiftKey have at their disposal... -- I don't have much hope for it.
This is also yet another reason for bailing out of the iOS ecosystem. Hope this finds its way to Ubuntu Mobile! :)
This should really be implemented as a feature in a full-size keyboard. Like a button with a down arrow that causes the keyboard to shrink into "one dimension" when you want the screen space. Or if 1D must be the default, it should at least be able to expand to full size when a lot of typing is necessary.
I personally consider this book a must read for every aspiring entrepreneur in software and hardware.
It looks pretty interesting but I do not really have a problem with the default keyboard.
(The music drowns out the voice! That's a shame.)
>People have difficulty typing on mobile devices. (Your experience may vary.)
Uh.
