a new keyboard - discuss and critique

[Marcel]

I simply want to try that design before sending it to hell, maybe it just 
works fine... I agree with people who said this before: Hitting actually 
dead space is less painful than hitting the wrong key and having to 
backspace/stroke-left all the time, maybe even accidentally pressing other 
keys while doing that.

--
Marcel

Am Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2009 13:53:46 schrieb Yorick Moko:
> i'm still undecided...
> although i agree it is far more annoying to hit the wrong key instead
> of no key
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> There is lots of space wasted. Why hasn't he put the key lines
> >> together inverted to each other?
> >
> > I think the fact that it's not like you describe the whole idea of
> > the design ;)
> >
> > Go to the page on El Reg and try and type your name by pushing your
> > monitor. It's stupid, yes, but it gives you an idea of how it would
> > work. It seems, without any feedback, to be very nice. The fact that
> > all the triangles are orientated the same way means you get a huge
> > area of triangular free space around each key, that lets you mash at
> > them without accidentally hitting another.
> >
> > I don't think it's about training your hands as others have said,
> > it's about providing a key with a lot of free space around it -
> > effectively you've made the key bigger (because you can hit any are
> > around it and "sort of" hit the right one without mis-hitting
> > another) whilst keeping the overall size very small.
> >
> > Its genius is its simplicity.
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> > 2009/6/3 neovento at freerunner <spaaam at ymail.com>:
> >> There is lots of space wasted. Why hasn't he put the key lines
> >> together inverted to each other?
> >>
> >> Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Robin Paulson
> >>> <robin.paulson at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> apparently, triangular buttons produce less errors.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/02/crocodile_keyboard/
> >>>>
> >>>> i'm not totally convinced, but it would be worth a go, i think
> >>>>
> >>>> now, is it possible to coerce raster's keyboard into using
> >>>> anything other than square keys?
> >>>
> >>> Looks interesting!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> r
> >>>
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> >>> | risto h. kurppa
> >>> | risto at kurppa dot fi
> >>> | http://risto.kurppa.fi
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