Comment from OllieBray
Time: September 18, 2007, 4:59 pm

Looks interesting - do you know if they can be used for interactive voting? OB

Comment from whereisab
Time: September 18, 2007, 5:14 pm

Great wee device Ollie - it acts like your mouse and the keyboard, so you can pretty much do anything you want with it. I’d love to see how a fast texter uses it compared with a traditional keyboard!

Comment from Alan Coady
Time: September 18, 2007, 9:59 pm

Ideal bonding opportunity staff vs pupils - three duels

(1) txt vs txt
(2) typing vs typing
(3) weapon of choice

- a kind of digilexical triathlon

Comment from chris
Time: September 18, 2007, 10:09 pm

Despite moblogging my way through my last two holidays away from the Mac, I don’t think I’ll ever attain the texting speeds of the last pupil I watched doing it - she could rattle out a message while looking at and talking to me at the same time. Once an immigrant …

Comment from Neil Winton
Time: September 18, 2007, 11:15 pm

I often fancied trying a wee competition in school where we give a group of kids a message in plain, they’ve to send it to a friend in another part of the school, and the friend has to decode it. Obviously, this would be against the clock… but the real reason I’m interested is that I wonder how accurate the message would be after going through the txt filter….

Actually, the way things are going, I half expect this idea to appear as prime-time Saturday viewing on the BBC…

Comment from Doug
Time: September 19, 2007, 9:08 am

This looks great … wonder if the software will take bluetooth or wireless from a mobile phone …. ought to use the bits we have already as my phone is now my ipod is now my pda is now my radio is now my ….

Comment from Stuart Angus
Time: September 19, 2007, 9:23 am

I’m a bit disappointed really as I was hoping to use a text-type-interface as my ‘Dragons Den’ idea.

It came to me last year whilst experiencing a friend’s excruciatingly slow attempt to type an email. I was subsequently amazed at the fact they could send a text of around the same size in a quarter of the time.

I imagine this would be a similar scenario for many people text more than they use a keyboard.

Back to the drawing board…