http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/ Engadget Comments for Engelbart's chorded keyboard reborn as stunning red jellyfish http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/
I thought it was only infants who are irresistibly drawn to bright colors and odd shapes.]]>Mar 29th 2010 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.handykey.com/), but they have neer managed to grow in popularity. While they may be faster to type with, there is a much steeper learning curve and they require good finger coordination: this tends to put most people off trying them.]]>Mar 29th 2010 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Are they faster? I'd like to see. I can push around 120wpm in optimum conditions (including errors, but retyping something I had previously written so it's already kind of in my head), and have no problem cruising at 80-90 in everyday typing.

If a chorded keyboard is just used to form letters, it seems slower because you have to devote your attention to each individual letter, while a conventional keyboard allows you to have one letter follow the other in very rapid succession.

But allowing for commonly used words or word parts might make this faster than a convention keyboard.]]>Mar 29th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Sure you can push 120wpm and cruise at 80-90wpm, but I highly doubt you can do that one-handed.]]>Mar 30th 2010 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/
That might be something else - it was a breathy-sounding voice generating thingy - they were making it emphasise different words in the sentence "she saw me"...

(Pssst if you've not seen Gizmo! it's a must-see, some bloke in youtube called gizmofan has uploaded the whole thing, I hope one day it'll turn up on DVD)]]>Mar 29th 2010 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/
Till then i'll stick to a keyboard.

]]>Mar 29th 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/I'd rather type than be in an office full of people talking to their computers. Frankly, for most purposes, I can probably type faster/fast enough anyway.

But I could see how bloggers and writers and others who produce a ton of human-readable content would find an advantage with speech recognition.
]]>Mar 29th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=351162406&mt=8]]>Mar 29th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/
There are examples of chorded keyboards for text as far back as 1874 as part of a telegraph system. Mr. Engelbart was born in 1925.]]>Mar 29th 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-reborn-as-stunning-red-jellyfish/Mar 29th 2010 1:47PM