2009年9月27日星期日

Multitouch screen keyboard for Microsoft

Oh, those smart rascals at Microsoft are on a roll. I love their Courier tablet concept, and now they may have found the way to make on-screen multitouch keyboards actually work great--even for touch typists like me.
The problem with screen keyboards is that you actually have to look at the screen to hit the keys correctly. With real keyboards, touch typists have a physical reference to position their hands. That's why they type blind. With a flat screen keyboard, however, you lose the physical reference frame.
The patent for this screen keyboard, however, uses multitouch technology to automatically align the keys to the position of the hand. Since the keys are always in the same relative position to your fingers, you will always have a physical point of reference: Your own hand. That way, you can blindingly hammer your keys against the screen, knowing that your fingers will always hit the keys they are aiming for.
The patent also details the way this virtual keyboard would appear anywhere on the screen: Just place your hands as you would normally do while typing, and the keyboard will pop up.
Keyboards are around today and there isn't any thing in the offering currently for development that is likely to change this any time soon, no matter what you like to say... again and again and again. Somehow I don't think Apple is going to stop allowing keyboards to be used on their systems simply because you have decided that they are passe.
At least for the next twenty years or so, the keyboard is here to stay. You can say whatever you want about voice being the next wave, but do you really want to be in a room full of people typing by talking to their computers? I can't even imagine the computer labs in my school's library which are supposed to be silent. Hopefully they still make computers that have keyboards so that I can do things like type quietly, have a conversation while using my computer, not have to say out loud what I'm writing. That would get pretty old.

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