Dasher
I was watching some videos over at Google Code and I came accross Dasher which is an attempt to do away with the good old keyboard.
Now, I understand the idea behind it and I also like the idea of moving ahead with newer ways of getting information from our brains into computers but I just couldnt really get this to work.. at any speed atleast. The idea is good but for me the suggested letters start to take up too much of the view whilst the actual letters I wanted tended to stay hidden.
For instance typing “I am not going to be af” was easy and very quick but when I want to complete the last word to say “afraid” I am presented initially with options they think are more important thus loosing the focus on the letters I want and in turn making me slow down my approach. Now, next I wanted to write “of” but on entering “o” Im presented with N, R and U as priority letters and “f” is hidden away. I think this is an interesting idea but I would prefer the letter all FLAT allowing me to quickly shift into the correct location because I know exactly what direction to go given a symetric A-Z vertical list.
Im not sure this will take off as I dont really think its any faster and the keybaord is to … easy by comparison - I dont even have to look at the keyboard anymore to type so its not a hardship to write.
What are your thoughts?
Add comment April 26th, 2007