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robertshaw.info Telecoms, Internet and Convergence 10 July 2002 More on predictive text inputO.K., it's a busy news day for predictive text input. Further to my note earlier on Dasher, the Economist today just happens to have an article entitled More Power to the Thumb, discussing a new text input method from Eatoni Ergonomics called Letterwise. The Economist says it's a worthy competitor to T9, who is owned by AOL. 11:04:13 PM Google It!Point, click & goAlthough more and more of us are carrying around smartphones or PDAs, I've always been frustrated that we can't just point our devices at what we want and instantly pull information out of magazines, off advertising posters, or dump train or flight schedules into our calendar applications. Because most smartphones and PDAs of the future will have cameras built into them (like this or this or this), it was just a matter of time before someone would recognize a market opportunity. As reported in Wireless Week, International Wireless and Bango.net have recently announced they will use CodePoint so that users can point a handset at a bar code and deliver content directly into a device. Hope something like this will be available in every handset in the future. 2:00:40 PM Google It!DasherIn the search for the optimum input method where a keyboard is not practical (e.g., PDAs, mobile Internet handsets), there's been some novel research going on at the University of Cambridge. The Dasher project has produced an unusual text-entry interface driven by pointing gestures. A prototype version can be downloaded for a Pocket PC. There's work going on to produce an eye-tracking version which they hope would allow users to visually write text as fast as normal handwriting. It's also now an open source project at SourceForge.net. 12:35:06 PM Google It!Sealand newsBBC News has an interesting update on Sealand, the offshore data haven based on an old concrete anti-aircraft tower off the east coast of England. Slashdot also has a related discussion thread. 10:48:27 AM Google It!Quote of the DayPoul Anderson. "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." [Quotes of the Day] 10:37:08 AM Google It!
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