If the number of people who strap keyboard cases to their tablets is any indication, the typing experience on large touch screens still needs major improvement.
Dryft, a company co-founded by the original inventor of Swype, thinks it can help. The company has devised a software keyboard for tablets that mimics the way you type on physical keyboards, and claims that users can reach up to type up to 80 words per minute with the software.
Dryft's big trick is the ability to tell when your fingers are resting on the screen, versus when they're typing, by tapping into the tablet's accelerometer and touch sensors. Instead of popping up in a static location, Dryft's keyboard appears around the location of your resting fingers. This supposedly prevents users from having to feel for the keys. Dryft also adapts to the user's typing style and uses language modeling to reduce errors along the way.
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