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Wouldn’t a T9 keyboard work better for people who texted before the smartphones? I imagine it’s like riding a bike: I’d probably be able to type blindly with one thumb again after a bit.
T9 suffers from slow input speeds. In the worst case you are required to click the same button four times for a single character.
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From your user page: "My name is actually CyberRabbit. I made a typo when I made this account and HN won’t let me edit my user name." There is no user "CyberRabbit" by the way, maybe dang would rename your account if you ask him?
Yes he offered but I don’t use email and cannot contact him that way.
It seems like every hardware geek makes one of these at some point. I think it's really cool. Designing a chording scheme for individual keys is a fun problem, kind of a nerd snipe. But in the end everyone concludes, "It's too slow to be useful." I think where the hand held keyboard might be really interesting is in combination with steno ( http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ ), but I haven't seen that done.
It seems that handwriting is 24 WPM. It would be neat to get that input speed on a computer using one hand without much more exertion, and choosing letters from a menu seems like more exertion.
How about from a wheel?
More hardware posts on hn please. Thank you.
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One of those pointless little distinctions that English language makes but many other European languages don't. Another example is "velocity" vs "speed"—what other vector quantity has two distinct names, one for the vector, another for the vector's magnitude? The acceleration doesn't, for example; and distance and displacement are two slightly different concepts that deserve two distinct names.
Weight and mass comes to mind.
#groan
Fwiw I’d have fun playing with that. It’s a cool idea.
Since there's a plenty of chorded keyboards already, someone should come up with some sort of a scat keyboard, or rather input method. Each keystroke is represented by a sequence of three notes that you sing into the microphone. Three notes produce two intervals which, measured in semitones, are converted into keys pressed (being, say, duodecimal digits). The relative duration of notes sang can be interpreted as modi…
You should talk to Tavis Rudd, maybe. https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI
Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of those pointless little distinctions that English language makes but many other European languages don't. Another example is "velocity" vs "speed"—what other vector quantity has two distinct names, one for the vector, another for the vector's magnitude? The acceleration doesn't, for example; and distance and displacement are two slightly different concepts that deserve two distinct names.
Weight and mass comes to mind.
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From your user page: "My name is actually CyberRabbit. I made a typo when I made this account and HN won’t let me edit my user name." There is no user "CyberRabbit" by the way, maybe dang would rename your account if you ask him?
Yes he offered but I don’t use email and cannot contact him that way.
Edit: oh. Likely a 1984 reference. Never mind now. Leaving comment as it is though