[Noisebridge-discuss] Typing gloves or similar?

[David Molnar]

I'm using a Kensignton SlimBlade Trackball. Not the world's fastest
way to type (mouse onto a soft keyboard) but fits in a coat pocket and
can be used one-handed. Works with jailbroken iPhone and BTStack
Mouse.
http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-SlimBlade-Trackball-Bluetooth-K72281US/dp/B000VE4MM2

Noticed this in an article on CES:

Peregrine gaming glove
Hard-core PC gamers can be easily spotted by their clawed and
blistered left hand, worn out from hours of keyboard-bashing as they
attempt to fight their way through virtual worlds and deadly warzones.
So it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a gaming
glove to relieve PC gaming fans from chronic RSI. The Peregrine glove
is designed to feel like "a second skin", and it has sensors all over
the fingers that can be programmed with the keyboard shortcuts used by
gaming fans as they cut a swathe through Azeroth. The idea is that
rather than stabbing at a combination of keys on the keyboard, players
instead touch their thumb to the appropriate sensor on the glove to
perform the same function. The friendly man who gave me a demo of the
Peregrine said it meant gamers could react more quickly to a
situation, saving valuable seconds, and could even mean "the
difference between levelling up and getting pwned". The technology
behind the glove is undoubtedly impressive, but the whole application
of it just seems bizarre.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/ces/6954727/CES-2010-Five-weirdest-gadgets.html



On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
> Has anyone used a good tether-free / large-item-free input method?
>
> The closest I know is that RyanC's used Twiddler2[1] and seems to
> somewhat like it.
>
> My preference is for something that'd let me keep a fairly high input
> speed after reasonable training[2], but that could be part of some
> low-profile worn computing setup like I mentioned a little while ago.
>
> In my futuristic ideal design sense, this'd be a mostly-cloth glove
> that lets me program arbitrary virtual keys in 3d space (with
> arbitrary chord to output mappings[3]), and haptic feedback of some
> sort integrated. Something that Inspector Heinrich Runge from Monster
> would use.
>
> But I doubt such a device exist IRL right now. So what's the closest?
> Is this within feasible reach for a project?
>
> - Sai
>
> [1] http://handykey.com/ - see also:
> http://www.frogpad.com/
> http://www.matias.ca/halfkeyboard/
> [2] I'm ~99wpm, 98% accurate on a QWERTY MS Natural 4k keyboard; never
> learned another input method
> [3] It'd be awesome if we could make an input device for the gripping
> language… http://000024.org/conlang/gripping.html
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