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Would love a wireless keyboard that works using this! It wouldn’t need any battery, charging or syncing!
by tehsauce 3y ago
Would love a wireless keyboard that works using this! It wouldn’t need any battery, charging or syncing!
- swid 3y agoSome old TV remotes used to work this way. They were made by Zenith and are called Space Command remotes. Apparently they are the reason TV remotes are sometimes called clickers. https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remot...
- pests 3y agoI've never considered how odd clicker is for remote but it feels totally natural to me. Like something my parents or grandparents would say. Never thought about where it came from.
- metaphor 3y agoImagine the UX of 1 in 20 characters typed being incorrectly inferred though. The P_failure*Cost impact would strike me as insufferable even if error rate were to improve by an order of magnitude.
- tehsauce 3y agoI was thinking it could be a keyboard designed to make sounds special sounds so it can be interpreted very accurately