I can already feel the keys scraping uncomfortably against my fingers.
A Motion-Sensing Keyboard
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#42Strange that the "swiping & pinch to zoom" gestures (starting at 41) are exactly opposite of how they work in an iPad. I can understand swiping being backward - people can disagree about "move the camera" vs. "move the paper" - but pinch-to-zoom-in is wrong in all contexts. ah, microsoft. you've got this cool research, but somehow you manage to make the usability all wrong. how did these people not notice that they i…
> people can disagree about "move the camera" vs. "move the paper" - but pinch-to-zoom-in is wrong in all contexts. It's not wrong, it's just another manner of perspective: "shrink the aperture" vs. "shrink the paper". > how did these people not notice that they implemented pinch-to-zoom backward from how it works on their phones? On a touchscreen, it feels like you're actually working with the content directly, but…
That's the best description I've ever heard. Apple really got this wrong with their new default "natural" scrolling on OS X.
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#43Brilliant! Not sure I like that particular implementation (with IR), but the idea of having the whole desktop keyboard work like a giant track pad is an enticing one.
Can a track pad surface be integrated into every keyboard key?
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#44Hm, I wonder how quickly the sensors would be covered in random kbd crud.. Cool idea, but why not leverage a Leap Motion device somehow?
Actually, I wonder if the troubled Leap Motion device is a good argument against this whole approach.
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#45I like the direction this is going. Something I'd love to see is a touch surface track pad on the J key that would function as a mouse.
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#46Brilliant! Not sure I like that particular implementation (with IR), but the idea of having the whole desktop keyboard work like a giant track pad is an enticing one. Can a track pad surface be integrated into every keyboard key?
What's wrong with the IR implementation? I guess they could introduce capacitive sensors as well, but I'd imagine IR + capacitive sensing would only make it more accurate.
IR makes sense mainly because there has to be a simple way to know that you're trying to type and not trying to move around the mouse/gesturing. Soon as your fingers are a certain height off the keyboard, it can know you're not typing. Otherwise you'd probably want to hold down SHIFT or something to indicate you want to use the mouse/gesture.
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#47When is someone going to start replacing parts of the keyboard? Remove the function keys and replace them with quick gestures? Is there a copy/paste gesture on the way?
Rather than removing functionality of already crammed laptop keyboards, I rather think this will be used to get rid of the touchpad and allow smaller laptop form factors that still have full sized keyboards, e.g. new kinds of surface devices.
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#48I like the direction this is going. Something I'd love to see is a touch surface track pad on the J key that would function as a mouse.
Are you thinking something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
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#49The idea of turning the surface of the keyboard into a trackpad is very cool, you could almost get rid of the mouse. Except for, how do you click the mouse pointer? Accidental clicks of keyboard keys is probably what makes it impractical.
Imagine holding down SHIFT+SomeOtherKey (with your pinky and thumb, so maybe SHIFT+ALT), this could indicate you want to use the mouse. Then just use your right hand to control the mouse, any key you tap will be a single click, double-tap is a double click, and tapping any two keys will be a right-click. Feels pretty intuitive.
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#50I guess "mechanical" doesn't mean the same thing here as it usually does when referring to keyboards.
They should be using a term like "physical" keyboard.