So you wanna be a rockstar! With those words Casio launches us into a purely 80's rockin' good time, all meant to show us how the only way to rock out is with the Casio CZ-101. Let's do our hair in a rad style and check out the cz-101. Just don't call it a keyboard!
The small company 4iThumbs, was showing their tactile keyboard overlay for the iPhone at Macworld. It's not designed to be a full-time keyboard replacement, but rather a training tool to allow you to get better/quicker at typing on the device. According to the creator of the overlay, you should be able to remove it after a month or two, and see optimal increases in your typing speed due to an increase in muscle memory for each key.
In using the keyboard briefly at the show, it does feel strange, as you need to touch between the raised points, rather than on them, as those coming from say, a Blackberry might expect. With that said, it did feel as if I was being more precise with where I was touching to activate each letter. Whether it really makes a difference compared to the phone's built-in error correction, will require longer testing:
When's the best time to remove a feature? Answer: When no one notices. Below just about every radar, Apple removed the "help" button from the update/change to the iMac keyboard last year. (Hey, did we mention it was hardly noticed) If you have the new keyboard, and you're curious as to what you're missing, well, essentially in OS X, pressing the help button turns your icon into a question mark, then clicking on objects on screen makes - no, not helpful tips appear - a buzz sound.
Since the help button didn't do anything, we can't say we, or anyone else is sad to see it go...
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