{"items": [{"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/keyboard-keys-should-be-tiny-touchpads/10150227836326213/?comment_id=10150227846611213", "anchor": "fb-10150227846611213", "service": "fb", "text": "check out the tablet on-screen keyboards. it was actually the thing that I minded the least about tablets, typing quickly felt natural, although you do need to look down to make sure your hands are in the right place to start typing...not a big deal since your screen is right next to your typing surface. now look at the dual-screen laptops, like the Acer Iconia. http://www.pcworld.com/.../acers_iconia_dualscreen_laptop...", "timestamp": "1310574330"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/keyboard-keys-should-be-tiny-touchpads/10150227836326213/?comment_id=10150227855641213", "anchor": "fb-10150227855641213", "service": "fb", "text": "Thanks, Danner! Always like to see exploration. Sure, a lot of it doesn't go anywhere. But some of it does and that's useful.", "timestamp": "1310575141"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/keyboard-keys-should-be-tiny-touchpads/10150227836326213/?comment_id=10150227874391213", "anchor": "fb-10150227874391213", "service": "fb", "text": "@Danner: I really like keys you can press, ideally with buckling springs. So I don't know if I'd be up for a lot of typing on a 'touchbook'", "timestamp": "1310577102"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/keyboard-keys-should-be-tiny-touchpads/10150227836326213/?comment_id=10150227908716213", "anchor": "fb-10150227908716213", "service": "fb", "text": "obviously i love buckling springs too, but as far as a cheap way to combine touchpads and keyboards? far more likely to make one large touchpad, instead of 86-105 movable touchpads. what about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXITjLurof0", "timestamp": "1310579965"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/keyboard-keys-should-be-tiny-touchpads/10150227836326213/?comment_id=10150227919336213", "anchor": "fb-10150227919336213", "service": "fb", "text": "@Danner: my mbp touchpad is the size of 24 keys. Now it might not be linear, and making it stand up to moving up and down might be tricky, but I'm not sure it's too far out there.", "timestamp": "1310580914"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/keyboard-keys-should-be-tiny-touchpads/10150227836326213/?comment_id=10150227955786213", "anchor": "fb-10150227955786213", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeff Kaufman: absolutely, look at http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/9836/ --but then look at how much it costs! amazing to make cheap enough.
the new paradigm on this stuff is to use cameras instead of surfaces. perhaps that is the best way to get what you want? have a webcam trained on the keyboard, able to understand gestures of your fingertips.", "timestamp": "1310584452"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/keyboard-keys-should-be-tiny-touchpads/10150227836326213/?comment_id=10150228846251213", "anchor": "fb-10150228846251213", "service": "fb", "text": "I've always wanted to try a keyboard that had a pair of force-sensitive joysticks, like the ones that IBM uses in some of their laptops, but two of them rather than one, each positioned for maximum convenience and comfort for ONE hand, rather than a compromise equally uncomfortable for either hand, as IBM chose.
Another paradigm is to use voice recognition s/w, doing away with the keyboard per se entirely, along with a dominant hand pointing device and a secondary hand keypad -- moving back in history toward the original Xerox Alto, but with the addition of VR.", "timestamp": "1310657753"}]}