Re:Reinventing How We Use Computers
by deafpolygon on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:43PM
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> My idea is to place a keyboard in a pair of gloves
Like in the film: Johnny Mnemonic?
It might look similar but this typing [1] is totally not what I want to see in this device.
The fingers must be springed and some clicking mechanism needs to chose between one of 3-5 rows of keyboard for each finger. Then one of 2 thumbs has to tell the keyboard to read the position of one of 8 remaining finger. Index fingers and pinkies might have a strafe (one more level of freedom for each of these 4 fingers) to support 2 columns of keys per each of these 4 fingers. This is how I'm going to implement my gloves keyboard with enough keys to type on English.
I have similar thoughts but closer to rather having a decent keyboard then having one more computer. My idea is to place a keyboard in a pair of gloves which is able to serve as either regular wireless keyboard to a device with screen or wired keyboard with earphone instead of screen.
I appreciate your thoughts on how our screens shape us as computer users and I think that audio interface will make our computer experience more like intimacy: most of people are OK when 20% of screen is proposing you an adware (because rest of the screen still serves on purpose) but nobody will listen even one second of adware per 59 seconds of content.
That is how I see the future of portable computers: keyboard as a main source of input, sound as a main source of output, FOSS operating system and ability to be the keyboard for unlimited number of those computers with screen.