Gesture input?

Frantisek Fuka fuxoft at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 19:23:13 UTC 2004


I've got one (or, more precisely, I've got two). It's portable,
space-efficient and the gestures work great. Unfortunately, it's very
hard to actually learn to type on it. And even if you learn, you'll
never be as fast or as correct as with normal keyboard.

However, I wholeheartedly recommend their miniature version:
http://www.fingerworks.com/mini_product.html
I use it instead of mouse with my standard keyboard for almost 2 years
and it's really great. It can also be used as "emergency keyboard"
when you have to do some small things with your keyboard-less server
etc...

Great thing is that you dont't need ANY special software (except the
USB driver) in your computer. All your gestures and other command are
in fact generating the required keypresses and mouse actions in the
touchpad's internal CPU. Also, you can remap most of the gestures to
your liking (they remain in the keyboard's memory even when switched
off). Out of the box, it supports several modes, including Linux, Mac,
Adobe applications, Word processing and game mode (which, sadly, still
isn't very usable for most of real-time games).

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:07:45 -0700 (PDT), David Faught
<dave_faught at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This looks like an interesting keyboard, but a little pricey.  Anyone
> have one?
> 
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fff/
> 
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