in a world where vr doesn't suck
and ar is useful enough to actually spend money on it
one keyboard rules them all
it doesn't have cords it doesn't have keys
hell it doesn't even have a board
so forget everything you know
because no seriously like just forget it because
this thing has a learning curve all its own
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tuned for more coming later in this video tap the wearable keyboard
looks and feels totally like sci-fi when
you first put it on but it's actually very simple to use just take the strap
out of its charging case slide it over your five feelers and press its one and
only button to both turn it on and activate pairing mode your computer or
your phone or whatever will simply see tap as an input device
but while you might think that it works by moving your hand in space across a
virtual qwerty tap is not that type of keyboard rather
than distinguishing characters based on your fingers locations it works by
assigning each letter or number its own unique gesture you see
each of these rings has its own 3-axis
accelerometer which communicates with the thumb unit via a thin wire hidden
within the strap's fitting cable tap registers keystrokes by measuring
the deceleration of your fingers as they come in contact with the surface which
means a you do have to type on something and not
in the air and b while you can use soft surfaces like the
couch or a friend's leg hard and flat surfaces work best
especially while you're learning so what's cool is you never have to look at
your hand while you're typing something that even the most experienced touch
typists have to do from time to time with the drawback being that you have to
learn more than a handful of these tap
gestures
the most common letters vowels use the simplest gestures single
tabs while the most common consonants use two-finger pairs and the complexity
increases as you go through the alphabet with some of the more obscure letters
reminding you just how embarrassingly limited your motor skills really are
fortunately the good people at tap had the sense to include easy shortcuts like
double tapping your middle finger instead of doing
this and you're not limited to letters there
are gestures for most common functions including backspace and enter and you
can even toggle a numpad but
having experienced a range of let's call them alternative keyboard
layouts in the past we know that sometimes no matter how great it is the
effort involved in learning to use a new board
just isn't worth it so how does tap compare
actually it's less horrible than you'd think the team worked with neuroscientists at
stanford to design a training app that gradually introduces and then drills the
gestures into your muscle memory they even incorporated catchy little jingles
to help you remember certain letter groups and the thing really works
james was able to learn the alphabet and start slowly typing in about two hours with
most people apparently reaching 30 to 40 words per minute in about five
now one weird thing is that once you learn
the gestures on one hand you actually don't need to relearn them for the other
hand it is oddly easy to switch which tap lets you do in the helpful but not
actually necessary companion app tap manager
and there's more tap also has a built-in mouse that you switch on by just laying
your thumb down and then moving your hand around provided that it works on your desk i
had to use a mouse mat and that would make tap the most ergonomic mouse
on the planet if it weren't for the fact that you have
to lift your fingers to register clicks and to scroll up and down a page
you can enter continuous scrolling mode by tapping your ring and pinky fingers
though it's not continuous enough for my liking especially on the phone or you
can toggle a sustained left click for dragging and highlighting by tapping the
ring and middle fingers the best part is that there's very
little latency in switching from keyboard to mouse which is critical
because you need to lift your hand off the surface once you run out of
mouse pad which brings us then to the experience
of using it section of the video unlike the mio gesture armband thing
from a while ago tap can be reliably
turned off and on as you switch tasks throughout
the day so if you're cleaning up you don't have to worry about it registering
a bunch of keystrokes as you touch something then when you're ready to type
again the strap is actually pretty good
at registering the strokes that you intend to type as long as you do a good
job of typing them it's light enough to be worn comfortably for its entire eight
hour battery life and it's discreet enough to let you still use your hand to
use a mouse open doors or
tap that ass but
just because tap is pretty darn good for what it is doesn't mean that i'm
recommending that you rush out and buy it considering that
you're not going to be faster using tab the use cases that are compelling enough
to spend 180 on one of these are pretty niche at
least for now however in a few years when we have you
know i don't know uh standalone ar glasses and tap has managed to push the
price down to maybe 40 to 50 bucks i could see a device like this in
or on a lot more people's hands
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touch typists have to do something that is
though the disadvantage is that you will have to learn
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