Hacker News with Generative AI: Input Devices

Show HN: Rad Type - Can we make gamepad typing fast? (tyleo.com)
Gamepad text input is fascinating. It's been over 40 years since the NES launched, yet we've seen little improvement beyond selecting characters from a QWERTY keyboard with directional input. This page introduces Rad Type: a new kind of gamepad keyboard with a hardware-centric design. Despite the brand new UX, I'd wager that most users can pick it up immediately and type many times faster than any other gamepad keyboard interface.

Game Design, User Interface, Input Devices, Gaming

42 points by tyleo 10 days ago | 37 comments

Clawtype: Custom wearable chorded keyboard and mouse (github.com/akavel)
A custom wearable chorded keyboard & mouse.

Wearable Technology, Hardware, Input Devices, Open Source

10 points by zdw 34 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video] (youtube.com)

Software, Hardware, Input Devices, Video

106 points by akavel 34 days ago | 27 comments

Homemade board has over 1k keys and types in words, not letters (pcgamer.com)

Hardware, DIY, Input Devices, Gaming

13 points by speckx 52 days ago | 2 comments

WristPC Keyboard (l3sys.com)
L3 Systems has developed the WristPC Keyboard for portable and wearable computer applications.

Wearable Technology, Hardware, Input Devices, Computing

15 points by yamrzou 103 days ago | 5 comments

Keyboard Lets People Type So Fast It's Banned from Typing Competitions (2022) (vice.com)
The CharaChorder is a new kind of typing peripheral that promises to let people type at superhuman speeds. It’s so fast that the website Monkeytype, which lets users participate in typing challenges and maintains its own leaderboard, automatically flagged CharaChorder’s CEO as a cheater when he attempted to post his 500 WPM score on the its leaderboards.

Input Devices, Typing, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction

18 points by thunderbong 131 days ago | 4 comments

3 Dimensional Keyboard [video] (youtube.com)

User Interfaces, Hardware, Input Devices

9 points by darweenist 131 days ago | 1 comments

Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency (2019) (github.com/shapr)
keyboard layout that changes by markov frequency

Input Devices, User Interface, Programming, Artificial Intelligence

167 points by dr_kiszonka 141 days ago | 105 comments

How does a USB keyboard work? (2021) [video] (youtube.com)

Hardware, Peripherals, Input Devices, Technology, Video Tutorials

4 points by transpute 251 days ago | 0 comments

How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016) (pcgamer.com)