510
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Good first generation, but I think it needs a couple generations of updates.
This product is a wonderful idea, but needs significant refinement before it will be seriously useful. First, I spent a while learning the keyboard, which was pretty neat. The design and placement of most of the keys was pretty easy to pick up. But things started getting wonky the moment I tried to type more than a dozen words a minute - not that I didn't know which fingers to tap, but Tap would regularly mis-read my taps as other characters. Particularly when the tap requires two fingers, such as the middle finger and pinky to type "z" would often also register the ring finger as tapped as well (in fact, typing those two fingers by themselves is a challenge all of its own that took time to overcome).
Right now, all keys are based on a series of taps. A space, one of the letters you type the most, requires tapping all five fingers - and if any one of them doesn't register, you don't get a space. It also isn't integrated in any way with good quality autocompletion or swiping technology - meaning typing on a screen is still far more efficient if you're going for speed, and it's incredibly easy to mess up with this.
Really, what this needs is GESTURES. More difficult taps or multi-taps should be converted to swipes. Imagine, swipe four fingers downwards for a space, swipe your middle finger up for a period, squeeze your index finger and thumb together for the enter key. Right now the limitation of this device only reading taps is it's biggest weakness, because emulating an entire keyboard with a series of currently-poorly read taps does not give you any speed to work with.
Would probably be useful for games designed specifically with this device in mind.
May 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase