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 <iknowjos...@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 neove...@freerunner <spa...@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.paul...@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 > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> | risto h. kurppa > >>> | risto at kurppa dot fi > >>> | http://risto.kurppa.fi > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Openmoko community mailing list > >>> community@lists.openmoko.org > >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> http://n2.nabble.com/a-new-keyboard---discuss-and-critique-tp3016473 > >>p3016823.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive > >> at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Openmoko community mailing list > >> community@lists.openmoko.org > >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community