BlindType is gonna change things

Brian Ambrozy 23 Jul, 2010 at 3:14pm ET Article published in Tech

Comments

1. 
   23 Jul 2010 ~ 4:52pm MAGIC Yeah, it is going to make people illiterate.
2. 
   23 Jul 2010 ~ 5:03pm RootWyrm Finally, something to address the fact that I can't type on the EVO!
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   23 Jul 2010 ~ 5:25pm PirateNinja Let's just hope this puts and end to "wat" and "wut" once and for all.
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   24 Jul 2010 ~ 7:53pm BobbyDigi Wow. What device were they using to demo? It looked to big to be a phone and two small to be an iPad. Also why didn't they do any two thumb demos. That's what most people use for a hardware qwerty on phones. Should be fun to play with.
   
   
   [edit] After looking at the other video and re-watching this it looks like they switch back and forth between an iPad and a smaller device.
   
   
5. 
   24 Jul 2010 ~ 8:43pm MrTRiot That's disgusting. Pure and simple...we're going to encourage our teenie boopers to spell the way they do for the rest of there natural lives.
   
   
   Good concept gone way too far.....
   
   A big fail from me...
6. 
   24 Jul 2010 ~ 11:14pm Gate28

   Mr TRiot wrote:

   That's disgusting. Pure and simple...we're going to encourage our teenie boopers to spell the way they do for the rest of their natural lives.
   
   
   Good concept gone way too far.....
   
   A big fail from me...

   
   Fixed.
7. 
   24 Jul 2010 ~ 11:41pm MrTRiot

   Gate28 wrote:

   Fixed.

   
   OMGEEZER!!!! Gate is F-ing gr8te!!!
8. 
   25 Jul 2010 ~ 12:07am CB I didn't get the impression that it was fixing spelling, per say. I mean, that's not its Big Deal. It looks like it just has a lot of forgiveness in allowing the user to hit the key next to the one he or she means to press. If anything it will help people type whole words again because they wont need shortcuts to make the typing faster anymore.
   
   It would be like if your spell checker would automatically fix your touch-typing if it noticed that your right hand was one key to the left, instead of allowing you to type gibberish.
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   25 Jul 2010 ~ 6:31am Snarkasm Yeah, it won't fix somebody typing 'wut' and turn that into what, it's when people try to type 'suspended' and have it come out 'sysoemdrd' that it helps. It's nothing but pattern-match optimization - they take the whole sequence of taps and their spatial relation to each other, then evaluate against an (apparently pretty widely-varied) dictionary to see what it's most likely the person meant to type.
   
   It won't help them type wut unless they actively go and add 'wut' to the device's dictionary. I don't even understand how people got the idea that it'll encourage intentional misspellings.
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    25 Jul 2010 ~ 5:13pm Hydrar Meh. Swype is much better than this. Imagine the predictive/corrective nature of BlindType with an input method that's tons faster.
    
    I don't know anyone who's tried Swype for a day and gone back to single click typing.
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    25 Jul 2010 ~ 7:16pm Snarkasm Swype is good for single-finger typing. This will be tons better for two-handed typing. Swype's prediction also leaves something to be desired, and frankly, sometimes I don't feel like dragging my finger all over the screen.
    
    Swype's good, but I'll give this a shot too.
12. 
    25 Jul 2010 ~ 7:18pm ardichoke

    frankly, sometimes I don't feel like dragging my finger all over the screen.

    
    Especially when it's muggy out and my fingers start getting sticky... they don't tend to slide along the screen as well.
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    25 Jul 2010 ~ 7:19pm Snarkasm ^