Enter text similar as you roll in Super Monkey Ball: How typing on iPhone 2.0 could be faster and much more fun!
While the virtual keyboard on Apples iPhone gets the job done it is still not really fun.
Why not to be a little more creative and use iPhones special hardware to make typing faster and more fun? Movies and all details after the click.
This video of the well known Sega game Super Monkey Ball on iPhone shows how moving the iPhone up/down and left/right gives you control of the little monkey in the ball.
Dasher http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ is a software that takes a different approach to text entry, that seems to be highly compatible with iPhone capabilities.
“Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used - for example,
* when operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse;
* when operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by eyetracker);
* on a palmtop computer;
* on a wearable computer.
The eyetracking version of Dasher allows an experienced user to write text as fast as normal handwriting - 29 words per minute; using a mouse, experienced users can write at 39 words per minute.”
Source: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary.html
How could Dasher make typing on iPhone faster and in addition more fun?
Simply by letting you roll a cursor over the letters that you would usually type with a keyboard. This sounds strange, we agree. Check out the Dasher website, try the Java version or download the Windows application.
Or try to get the idea by watching this video (but when something is as different as Dasher, experiencing it yourself is probably the only way to get it).
Is this flow of letters not a much more elegant and appropriate way of streaming your thoughts and ideas possibly directly from your iPhone to Twitter and FriendFeed?
Don’t you think that “typing” feels suddenly so “old school”?
Have fun!
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