Sunday 17 June 2007

Wii are happy

This is a small message created from my couch by using my Wii. It is a bit slow entering text with the Wiimote by pointing on the screen, but it seems to work ok. There is a qwerty-keyboard displayed on the screen and all I have to do is point and click. The highlighted key zooms out for easier typing. I'm estimating that I can type at a speed of about 90 characters a minute with an accuracy of 98%, or two mistakes per hundred letters. The Wiimote vibrates on passing every key to help you guide the pointer. The A-button I need to press for every letter gives tactile feedback, and each pressed key makes a keyboard like sound. They even gave the space bar and the shift-key separate sounds, just like a normal keyboard would have.

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