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How about a pair of gloves that can sense the muscle movements in your fingers and hands and learn to associate those movements with letters on the keyboard as

by ttul 7y ago

How about a pair of gloves that can sense the muscle movements in your fingers and hands and learn to associate those movements with letters on the keyboard as you type. Then when you're away from the keyboard, the gloves just use the model to infer what your movements intend as you "air type". Surely this is possible with modern machine learning techniques and hardware.

ilikehurdles 7y ago
This reminds me of the wired hand interface in Children of Men[1]: [1]: https://youtu.be/sJO0n6kvPRU?t=122 https://youtu.be/sJO0n6kvPRU?t=122 (minute 2:02)
Something1234 7y ago
I had a toy called hand band that was a similar concept you could move your fingers to produce different sounds but it was only one sound per finger.
maxander 7y ago
At least one company is working on that general concept: https://www.ctrl-labs.com/ https://www.ctrl-labs.com/
vphantom 7y ago
The problem with gloves only would be the lack of tactile feedback to tell your fingers that the key press has registered. I used a Datahand for several years and while it was very easy on fingers (the activation pressure was much less than typical keyboards, even Topre's), the tactile feedback from the switches was I think essential for typing efficiently. I miss that thing...
mrspeaker 7y ago
Years ago I was trying to prototype something like this (the "typing gloves" part) with accelerometers. I wanted them so I could see if I could type while lucid dreaming. Alas, my hardware skills were not up to the task!
jodrellblank 7y ago
The Senseboard virtual keyboard tried to do that a decade ago: https://sandipsandilya.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/senseboard-virtual-keyboard/ https://sandipsandilya.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/senseboard-v... and the AirType as well a bit more recently https://www.ohgizmo.com/airtype-keyless-keyboard-future/ https://www.ohgizmo.com/airtype-keyless-keyboard-future/

by ttul 7y ago

ilikehurdles 7y ago

This reminds me of the wired hand interface in Children of Men[1]: [1]: https://youtu.be/sJO0n6kvPRU?t=122 https://youtu.be/sJO0n6kvPRU?t=122 (minute 2:02)

Something1234 7y ago

I had a toy called hand band that was a similar concept you could move your fingers to produce different sounds but it was only one sound per finger.

maxander 7y ago

At least one company is working on that general concept: https://www.ctrl-labs.com/ https://www.ctrl-labs.com/

vphantom 7y ago

The problem with gloves only would be the lack of tactile feedback to tell your fingers that the key press has registered. I used a Datahand for several years and while it was very easy on fingers (the activation pressure was much less than typical keyboards, even Topre's), the tactile feedback from the switches was I think essential for typing efficiently. I miss that thing...

mrspeaker 7y ago

Years ago I was trying to prototype something like this (the "typing gloves" part) with accelerometers. I wanted them so I could see if I could type while lucid dreaming. Alas, my hardware skills were not up to the task!

jodrellblank 7y ago

The Senseboard virtual keyboard tried to do that a decade ago: https://sandipsandilya.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/senseboard-virtual-keyboard/ https://sandipsandilya.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/senseboard-v... and the AirType as well a bit more recently https://www.ohgizmo.com/airtype-keyless-keyboard-future/ https://www.ohgizmo.com/airtype-keyless-keyboard-future/