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Weight and mass comes to mind.
Weight isn't the vector quantity of mass. It's mass times acceleration, e.g. gravitational acceleration, g. In other words, it's a force.
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>Poor guy messed up the timeline so much that even his stock market knowledge was useless! -- Without the time available to go down the Englebart rabbit hole can you distill the story down some and share?
Englebart famously demoed possible ways of interacting with computers that are now ubiquitous decades before they were actually popularized. I made a joke about him only having those ideas because he was a time traveler from the future, but tried to implement them too early. Then, after he already didn't make billions from his ideas, he couldn't use his future knowledge of investment because his demo was still big en…
I also watch far too much Sci-Fi so my brain is wired to assume people are time traveller and such like :D
Alternative chording scheme - take sequence into consideration. Chord starts with first key depressed and ends when last is released. One-key chords: 5 One of 5 keys to press, one way to release key. Two-key chords: 40 1 of 5 possible starting keys, 1 of 4 possible second keys, 5x4 20 openings. With 2 keys held in, two ways to release: 1 of 2 keys to release first, 1 remaining key to release last. A total of 40 (20x2…
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The Cybernetic Chordic Keyer: A simple low cost high performance multikeyer for wearable computers or the like
Steve Mann
Pdf at http://wearcam.org/keyer
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To be fair, he didn't invent it either. He was just the first to use one with a computer.
Looks like that makes two of us who forgot to include attribution...
Great write up. Question: why does the one keycap on the 'behold' photo look like it is so much less high? (on the other photo they seem identical)
Reminds me a bit of this really cool project I saw the other day: https://there.oughta.be/a/macro-keyboard Difference is one is generic for typing anything, and the link there is purpose-built on a per-application basis, but the idea of having a small amount of keys for a precise job is very interesting. (Side note, anyone remember the Optimus Maximus, where each key was an LED screen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O…
Oh I vividly remember watching a guy eat the world's largest Cheeto over the world's most expensive keyboard: https://vimeo.com/4294567
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.
I bet a lot of what the paramedic friend types is repetitive and industry specific. Could speed things up with some macros/text expander type of functionality. The multi presses reminds me a lot text messaging back before smartphones. Most kids could type quickly without really looking and using just a thumb.
Hi, paramedic friend here. The whole "paramedic notes" thing was just a very dubious pretext. I was looking at a small notebook page of notes after a call (no patient identifiers, not that it would have mattered), and was curious if anyone would be able to make out a single word. Stavros is Greek, so he was the obvious choice. That's where the story in the post picks up (with a little creative license). In reality, l…
This is called a chorded keyboard [1]. Like seemingly everything invented in the following 40 years, it was introduced by Douglas Englebart in the Mother of all Demos in 1968. Englebart had a iOS app that allowed you to chord type as well. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
Would be kind of neat if I could "hear" a blog post as I was typing it, and maybe eventually even learn to listen to text transcribed as music.
Anyone ever use this? https://waytools.com
A few years ago in university I tried taking notes using an Apple wireless keyboard with my iPad in my backpack. It was surprisingly liberating to just type and not have to look at a screen. I'm sure I looked like an idiot but it was an advanced software engineering course so it wasn't to far leftfield :)