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in a world where vr doesn't suck

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and ar is useful enough to actually spend money on it

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one keyboard rules them all

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it doesn't have cords it doesn't have keys

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hell it doesn't even have a board

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so forget everything you know

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because no seriously like just forget it because

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this thing has a learning curve all its own

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cheddar is a post-cable network that focuses on innovative products

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technologies and services check out their youtube channel below and stay

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tuned for more coming later in this video tap the wearable keyboard

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looks and feels totally like sci-fi when

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you first put it on but it's actually very simple to use just take the strap

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out of its charging case slide it over your five feelers and press its one and

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only button to both turn it on and activate pairing mode your computer or

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your phone or whatever will simply see tap as an input device

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but while you might think that it works by moving your hand in space across a

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virtual qwerty tap is not that type of keyboard rather

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than distinguishing characters based on your fingers locations it works by

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assigning each letter or number its own unique gesture you see

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each of these rings has its own 3-axis

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accelerometer which communicates with the thumb unit via a thin wire hidden

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within the strap's fitting cable tap registers keystrokes by measuring

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the deceleration of your fingers as they come in contact with the surface which

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means a you do have to type on something and not

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in the air and b while you can use soft surfaces like the

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couch or a friend's leg hard and flat surfaces work best

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especially while you're learning so what's cool is you never have to look at

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your hand while you're typing something that even the most experienced touch

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typists have to do from time to time with the drawback being that you have to

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learn more than a handful of these tap

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gestures

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the most common letters vowels use the simplest gestures single

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tabs while the most common consonants use two-finger pairs and the complexity

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increases as you go through the alphabet with some of the more obscure letters

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reminding you just how embarrassingly limited your motor skills really are

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fortunately the good people at tap had the sense to include easy shortcuts like

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double tapping your middle finger instead of doing

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this and you're not limited to letters there

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are gestures for most common functions including backspace and enter and you

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can even toggle a numpad but

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having experienced a range of let's call them alternative keyboard

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layouts in the past we know that sometimes no matter how great it is the

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effort involved in learning to use a new board

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just isn't worth it so how does tap compare

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actually it's less horrible than you'd think the team worked with neuroscientists at

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stanford to design a training app that gradually introduces and then drills the

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gestures into your muscle memory they even incorporated catchy little jingles

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to help you remember certain letter groups and the thing really works

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james was able to learn the alphabet and start slowly typing in about two hours with

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most people apparently reaching 30 to 40 words per minute in about five

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now one weird thing is that once you learn

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the gestures on one hand you actually don't need to relearn them for the other

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hand it is oddly easy to switch which tap lets you do in the helpful but not

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actually necessary companion app tap manager

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and there's more tap also has a built-in mouse that you switch on by just laying

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your thumb down and then moving your hand around provided that it works on your desk i

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had to use a mouse mat and that would make tap the most ergonomic mouse

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on the planet if it weren't for the fact that you have

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to lift your fingers to register clicks and to scroll up and down a page

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you can enter continuous scrolling mode by tapping your ring and pinky fingers

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though it's not continuous enough for my liking especially on the phone or you

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can toggle a sustained left click for dragging and highlighting by tapping the

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ring and middle fingers the best part is that there's very

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little latency in switching from keyboard to mouse which is critical

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because you need to lift your hand off the surface once you run out of

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mouse pad which brings us then to the experience

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of using it section of the video unlike the mio gesture armband thing

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from a while ago tap can be reliably

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turned off and on as you switch tasks throughout

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the day so if you're cleaning up you don't have to worry about it registering

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a bunch of keystrokes as you touch something then when you're ready to type

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again the strap is actually pretty good

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at registering the strokes that you intend to type as long as you do a good

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job of typing them it's light enough to be worn comfortably for its entire eight

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hour battery life and it's discreet enough to let you still use your hand to

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use a mouse open doors or

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tap that ass but

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just because tap is pretty darn good for what it is doesn't mean that i'm

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recommending that you rush out and buy it considering that

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you're not going to be faster using tab the use cases that are compelling enough

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to spend 180 on one of these are pretty niche at

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least for now however in a few years when we have you

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know i don't know uh standalone ar glasses and tap has managed to push the

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price down to maybe 40 to 50 bucks i could see a device like this in

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or on a lot more people's hands

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cheddar tv has a wide variety of different segments and over on their

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explains where they take a particular topic and

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well they explain it you can check out cheddar's video on cord cutting and

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traditional media at the link below they go through and discuss the cable

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industry how it's changed over the past 15 to 20 years and how they're trying to

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adapt so have a look at that video and the rest of their content again through

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though the disadvantage is that you will have to learn

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what are you doing right you did

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