AN ASTONISHING APP USES AN IPHONE’S ACCELEROMETER TO SENSE THE LOCATION OF A TAP ON ANY SURFACE AND TRANSLATE IT INTO TYPED LETTERS ON A KEYBOARD.
We have virtual keyboards, clip-on keyboards, magnetic keyboards and even laser keyboards. But what if your keyboard wasn’t a keyboard at all?
Florian Kräutli has developed an ingeniously simple alternative called the Vibrative Virtual Keyboard. By placing an iPhone on any surface, that surface becomes a keyboard. Technically, the phone’s accelerometer is measuring vibrations on that surface. Kräutli’s software maps those vibrations to a point of origin on the table. And when the phone can “see” where you’re tapping, you can have a QWERTY keyboard on any tabletop.
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