<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM, neovento@freerunner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spaaam@ymail.com">spaaam@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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There is lots of space wasted. Why hasn't he put the key lines together<br>
inverted to each other?</blockquote><div>The article says "that each triangular key has significantly more dead space around it
than you’d find on a standard Qwerty layout. Consequently, users are
more likely to press the correct key each time they tap."<br><br>IMO, he is just trying to make easy money, he claims that his patented technology is soooo cool and ask apple to "help" him. meaning : paying to use this. <br>
<br>I haven't try to look further, so I may be wrong, maybe triangle key really improve error rate.<br><br>Mathieu<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Risto H. Kurppa wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Robin Paulson <<a href="mailto:robin.paulson@gmail.com">robin.paulson@gmail.com</a>><br>
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>> apparently, triangular buttons produce less errors.<br>
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>> <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/02/crocodile_keyboard/" target="_blank">http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/02/crocodile_keyboard/</a><br>
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>> i'm not totally convinced, but it would be worth a go, i think<br>
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>> now, is it possible to coerce raster's keyboard into using anything<br>
>> other than square keys?<br>
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> Looks interesting!<br>
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