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Re:5 Tiles Keyboard by p4bl0 on Sunday May 25, 2014 @10:30AM (#7796413)
I'm sorry I may be stupid but I still don't understand how the keyboard works after having seen that second video. Seriously they should make a video where we can see what happens on the keyboard and on the screen at the same time.

Why every time the finger starts to slides the only letters left on the keyboard are "EABCD"? How do I type an 'n' for instance? I see that they do a round-trip to enter numbers, but how am I supposed to enter '6'?

These may be the worst demo videos I've ever seen.

I remember another alternative-paradigm keyboard, 8pen, which had pretty good and instructive videos. They should learn from that.

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Re:5 Tiles Keyboard by adyda on Sunday May 25, 2014 @11:19AM (#7796518)
Each of the 5 tiles represent a group of letters/numbers. The reason you see 'EABCD' is because he is only using the first (blue) tile. If you wanted to type 'n' you would put your finger on the yellow, which contains 'KLONM', and slide it to the fourth tile.

The numbers I'm not sure. I think it is the same concept with 1-4 on the first tile (blue) and other numbers on other tiles.

Still doesn't seem like it would be faster for typing.

Blue (1st) tile is EABCD, Green (2nd) is FIGHJ, Yellow (3rd) is KLONM, Orange (4th) is PQRTS, and Red (5th) is VWXY.

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Re:5 Tiles Keyboard by p4bl0 on Sunday May 25, 2014 @03:54PM (#7797348)
> he is only using the first (blue) tile

That's what I assumed too, but I didn't want to be sure of it because one have to be too stupid to do a demo of a product using always the same part. "Look I designed a keyboard and I can type with it: 'aaaaaaaaaaa'".

Okay, so it means that if I want to type 'n' I hit the 3rd tile and then I have to move four tiles away. Except I can't. So I guess I'll have to go backward when I reach the last tile in the direction I chose. But that seem to conflict with what I inferred for numbers…

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Re:5 Tiles Keyboard by mobilemaggie on Monday May 26, 2014 @07:27AM (#7799346)
we didn't make it clear enough in that video that it's of the keyboard in "Learning Mode", which shows you which letters you can swipe to when you've got your finger on one of the keys. We'll make a new with the Learning Mode turned off....
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