[ExI] Single-hand touch typing in Ender's Game

[Eugenio Martínez]

Well.. I mean, the only ones easily affordables that we have in reality, of
course, ha ha.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:45 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> 2013/11/15 Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:56:57AM -0500, Odell Huff wrote:
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> > Dear Cave Shadows--I'm a twenty-year lurker on this list and this is my
> > first post, or question rather. In the (enthralling!) movie, Ender types
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> Two-decade lurker, that's got to be a new record.
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> > complete-sentence emails with one hand on a touch screen. Does this
> > technology actually exist, or could it? I was thinking I would very much
> > like to take notes mobilely, on say an iPhone, the writing equivalent to
> a
> > micro recorder. It seems to me the tech would be easy, the hard part
> might
> > be having to learn to type like a court reporter...
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> You mean a chorded keyboard on a multitouch device?
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> http://labs.teague.com/2012/02/08/doug-engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-as-a-multi-touch-interface/
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> Some of you guys might have been around in the early to mid 90s when we
> had a wearable computer group; Eugen I vaguely recall seeing you there but
> I might be mistaken.  I was a lurker on ExI in those days, but the
> wearables group almost predated ExI-chat.
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> We had a vision going back to about 1989 when I saw a demonstration of a
> head-up display at a trade show.  It wasn’t good resolution, but it was
> good enough for grainy graphics and 640x480 resolution text, which was
> common in those primitive savage days.  The data egg or one-handed keyboard
> was big then.  We debated if that would be the way, or speech recognition.
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> >…Dear Cave Shadows--I'm a twenty-year lurker on this list…
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> In retrospect, it is interesting that the bulk of this discussion on data
> eggs vs speech rec happened twenty years ago, but it wasn’t really here, it
> was on another group.  I think ExI-chat took it up mostly in the later 90s.
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> spike
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