If using the iPhone’s keyboard drives you round the bend, then worry not: a touch-savvy fix called BlindType might just be able make your life a whole lot easier.
The upcoming application, discovered by Engadget, takes the idea of the iPhone keyboard and intensifies its ability to be inaccurate. By this, I mean BlindType recognizes your errors much more accurately than the built-in iPhone checker does – thus granting users the ability to be all the more inaccurate with their typing.
As you can see from the video (below), BlindType is able to understand words that have been typed entirely wrong, and then changes them automatically. Users then have the ability to switch the corrected word with another guess via a bar that appears over the virtual keyboard.
In addition to this, the BlindType keyboard also adjusts to the user’s typing – growing or decreasing in size, or spinning when necessary. With BlindType, users don’t type onto a keyboard; rather, they type onto a screen upon which a keyboard appears in relation to the distance between the imaginary keys you press.
If this doesn’t quite make sense, then check out this video below and (hopefully) all will become clear:
See what I mean? BlindType is currently still in development, so it’s not available in the App Store right now – but we’ll surely be posting when it is, so keep your eyes peeled!
In the meantime, you can find out more about BlindType by checking out its official site. And, be sure to let us know what you think in the comments bow below!
That is freaking crazy! :S
I don’t really see a huge difference here. It looks pretty much exactly like the current keyboard but with additional word choices popping up
nevermind. The whole video wasn’t working at first so I just saw the first bit. It’s pretty darn cool. I hope Apple buys it.
Pretty cool.
Wow! that loks pretty sweet, cant wait for this to come out.
That’s pretty cool. I can’t see this being approved by Apple so that it would work universally with all applications. In that case, this will most like end up in the Cydia Store as a jailbreak app. If it’s released as an individual app in the Apple App Store, I don’t see how it could be used practically when you need that function in well, every other program you use on your iPhone.
Also, “intensifies its ability to be inaccurate” doesn’t make any sense. If you intensify the ability to be inaccurate, then you would in fact make it MORE inaccurate. You need to edit that statement because you have it backwards.
Intensifies its ability to be inaccurate makes sense; what the author means is that the keyboard is much more sensitive to error than the default one, ie this keyboard “intensifies the possible inaccuracies that can arise from using the iPhone keyboard”. The end result is, ironically, greater accuracy.
Fascinating. I see great potential here, especially for people who know how to touch type, particularly on an iPad, which has a larger keyboard.
Very cool. I doubt it will be approved except as an individual app by apple, which makes the handiness of it drop to 0. Hopefully the dev is smart enough to make it a full system replacement so it works wherever a keyboard is used.
Holy crap.. this whole thing is just spooky. WAY too accurate to be earth technology; and I, for one, welcome our keyboardless-mind-reading overlords.
Also, the method to delete words is simply amazing, MUCH more intuitive than the default shake to undo.
Excellent, will make early morning drunken texts more comprehendible