[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b8NlMd79w[/yt]
I wonder if it's made for drunkl threads?
Take a look at this AMAZING virtual keyboard!
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I wonder if it's made for drunkl threads?
All Seeing Eye
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It's a con. How can you type anywhere on screen and expect it to type what you want. 
Unless it's plugged into your brain and can detect what you intend to type it's not possible.
Unless it's plugged into your brain and can detect what you intend to type it's not possible.
I Am Legend I think it's done like Lindley suggests -plus a few little tweaks added... I could actually use that kind of active spell checker on my keyboard at home 
All Seeing Eye
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I understand the ability for it to detect proximity to keys in order to determine what you wanna type but I'm talking about when there isn't even a keyboard visible. You can't just tap anywhere on screen and expect it to know what you want to type.
But once you've tapped a few places in sequence an image of the keyboard you have in your head will emerge from the pattern you're tapping; I'm sure this sort of thing is possible -some of that video clip seems a little too fantastic, sure, but not all of it - it's the same with all kind of software; it's never as good as the video
It's just a touch-screen. Not exactly rocket science....?
All Seeing Eye
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WTF! I know it's touchscreen, I'm talking about tapping the screen when no keyboard is visible. You can't hit a blank screen and then expect the thing to know what you are trying to type. The person doing the tapping wont even know if he's anywhere near the key he wants to hit.
Pretty wicked. I'm not sure it could manage really fast typing like a physical keyboard, but still pretty good.
The keyboard is not visible to you, but it's "visible" to the touchphone. So it still will be able to calculate key proximity. If the result is the actual word you wanted to write is a different question, but the point is that there will be a proper result.
I'm so used to typing on a keyboard that I can do it blindly. So I don't even have to see the keypoard on the touchscreen.
Oh, that. It's just a 2d pattern recognition system; given a certain arrangement of touches, there are a limited number of words it could correspond to.
Actually, the whole thing seems like it's basically classifying sequenced 2d point clouds.
Kind of pointless on the no-keyboard bit though----I doubt that would make things easier for many people.
Yeah, that just seems like a "neat trick" rather than anything practical. Cool idea in general, though! I like the concept of a keyboard that can tell when you hit the wrong key and correct automatically. Might even be useful on a hardware keyboard. Everybody's finger slips now and then.
Interesting. I see one significant flaw, however. Using such a keyboard, you are limited to typing only what words are in the program's dictionary. Forget it if you want to type a foreign word, obscure company name, scientific term, etc. I could also see it making a lot of mistakes. Imagine typing a school report about ducks, for example, and you routinely typed the d a little to the right. Or, if you're typing a news story about a guy getting shot, but hit the o a little to the left. Hilarity would ensue, but doubt your teacher/editor would be amused.
OTOH, it would eliminate all the annoying contractions, phonetic spellings, and other intentional misspellings text message shorthand. I could go for that. Oh look, I just used one.
OTOH, it would eliminate all the annoying contractions, phonetic spellings, and other intentional misspellings text message shorthand. I could go for that. Oh look, I just used one.
LOL, that's so wonderful, Jarod.
iPhone uses predictive spell-check to enhance the sweet spot of expected keys at the expense of keys it calculates you're unlikely to use. So when you start typing on an iPhone, all keys have an equal share of the invisible touch space. Say if you type an "L," it's going to invisibly make the touch zone for vowels larger (odds are that's the next letter you're going to press), and consonants like "Z" and "X" smaller.
Android has this exact proximity feature you describe. Of course, it also allows alternate keyboards such as Better Keyboard (a very good use of $2.99), which combines proximity spell check with prediction key size bias. If you want a visual example of how prediction bias works on the iPhone and alternative android keyboards, check out ThickButtons Keyboard on Android market (free, and you can find youtubes of it too).
STR,
I hate it when that happens with my iPhone. Sometimes it thinks I'm trying to type a different word and won't let me type in what I want. I think people need to just be more careful when typing out words to avoid making mistakes.
I hate it when that happens with my iPhone. Sometimes it thinks I'm trying to type a different word and won't let me type in what I want. I think people need to just be more careful when typing out words to avoid making mistakes.
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