On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:02, Robert Michel scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > No keystroke at all - using just the different color points - areas.... > and use the combinatoric - 10 colour points without different areas > would give the power of 10! = 3.628.800 combinations > more areas would give more power > - so it would become possible to write shorthand/stenography with this > device and even faster then with normal keyboards. > > But also a normal virtual qwerz keybord could profit of muticolour, > for 10-finger stystem user, the colour points or fingertaps would > avoid that the right index finger could type something other then > YU,HJ,BN - because of the fact that the other (coloured) fingers > still stay on the touchscreen - the regongnition of the typing > could be relative to the position of the other fingers.
An alternative that is probably more practical in the short term might be IBM's Shape Writer. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/shapewriter.htm _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
