Ring-Writer -- Can the iPhone do this?

[sackboy92]

yeah but just saying on a normal typer u just press buttons quick its easy i writ that in 3 seconds seriously

[ronnysoeberg]

Pretty clever, this.

[grayandjess1981]

Why would i want my iphone to do that?, it took forever to write 3 or 4 words...

[dareves]

No, my iphone can't and THANK GOD IT DOESN'T!!

[dareves]

No, my iphone can't and THANK GOD IT DOESN'T!!

[P3rfectRunx24]

Thats actually really shitty

i would stick to my buttons lol

if you could send text by writing your text with some sort of pen that would be cool

[toastco]

Hello. In the late 1980's, they made that shirt.

Nice!

[lollero1234567890]

is this for 5800

[wevenhuis]

A nice novel idea! The use would speak volumes if the ui could be combined with other ways of handwriting input. Together they could increase the speed and efficiency of notetaking on mobile phone.

[Gridfire]

Shapewriter in the iPhone app store does this very well thankyou

[pmccallig18]

shes beautiful!

[Daghead]

As much as she is weird-ish :/

[Kaldosh]

wow, this seems really inventive, in everything they mentioned except that annoying ring they use as a text entry system. :)

[beratalbania]

heres how to get tmboile g1 virtual keyboard

how to uninstall:

-settings

-apps

-manage

-select the app

-select uninstall

-confirm

[sexykiesa1]

wtf its saying the vidio aint available now

[sexykiesa1]

how big is the screen on that phone and where can u get it

[sexykiesa1]

the iphone3g has a writing pad so you can do it with ur finger but u haft to download it from the app store i haveit on my iphone3g. its well good when u text people

[gurintto]

This is great. The OpenMoko open-source phone project could really benefit from this technology. At present, the default input method is a terrible on-screen keyboard; it's one of the weakest points of the whole system.

If this system was available for OpenMoko it could really enhance the device.

[ILT2M]

That's really cool.

[z7lmodique]

this is so cool i want one so bad

[Hokageeeeeee]

I think that apple wouldn't put this system in iphone coz iphone is made to be easy eaven for old ppl and I think that this isn't so easy system...

[saneok92]

yo//i am from Moldova and i know Romanian...i like this phone--how much it costs?

[dacarrales]

i can type faster with my iphone and with out going back and fix

[Generalvaldez]

shapewriter is some much esier and better

[chintopher]

okay i could write faster with my keyboard

[wasemsnake]

where is arabic lang ????

[TimScanlan]

Arabic is a *little* more difficult than just adding a new dictionary, although the adaptation is quite feasible: need to define the distribution of the 28 Arabic letters, and handle the storage and output of Arabic script. Cyrillic, Greek etc would require about the same effort...

Tim

[Tinokoxrz]

work its in spanish

[TimScanlan]

Yes, it works in spanish, as well as danish, english, finnish, french, german, italian, portuguese, romanian and swedish. And it's fairly easy to add new dictionaries.

Tim

[Tinokoxrz]

thx

[Mizan215]

wtf, there turning english into chinses, a symbol for each word, this is fuked

[TimScanlan]

Chinese writing was indeed one of the influences of Ring-Writer, but whereas Chinese characters often require many strokes, Ring-Writer shapes can be very efficient, and in this respect are more like a computer-aided shorthand. For instance, the shape for hello looks a lot like a written letter 'd', about five times more efficient than the long-hand written form for "hello". Tim

[Mizan215]

but at the end of the day you are basicly trying to re-invent the wheel, i mean it works great and everything but all thoose symbols and things, it would take alot longer to get used then just using a qwerty keyboard and people these kind of phones can genraly type fast

[banstaman]

seems pretty confusing...

[TornTech]

i agree

and can the iphone do this?

no it can't, but i don't want it to do this anyways. The virtual keyboard on the screen is WAY better!

[Ibanez3130]

this is fucking gay.

its like the size of my computer

[TimScanlan]

You have a computer that's less than a inch square? Ring-Writer would work on a watch...

[Ibanez3130]

Its a figure of speech :P

A watch?

[TimScanlan]

(Stupid?...) In the 1990's I worked for 7 years on handwriting recognition and helped to build a system that was about as good as the best ones available today. The problem is that computer programs can't recognize illegible, or even badly written, handwriting, and probably won't be able to do so in your lifetime - so don't hold your breath. Humans can do it because they use context, grammar and other language knowledge to "guess" what was written.

[ehsanul]

hmm, i'm trying to develop something that will recognize words used in the reCAPTCHA.. apparently, a professor at my friend's university who has done research in character recognition thinks it's a very easy problem, lol..

[barthosch]

This is so stupid. I want *working* handwriting recognition on a device before I ever touch a stylus again.

[bcbs15]

hmm... seems a bit fiddaly

no thanks

[clidiere]

I'm guessing that ring writing makes mistakes very painful. And humans always make mistakes...

[hotykids]

How big is that thing? I rather carry my notebook!

[zgoosekeeper]

This is something that could have been the next big thing if it had come out before the text input system that the IPhone uses. But, as soon as the IPhone would come out, POOF, it would just be "one short sentence" in the texted history books. This is new technology and old technology all at the same time.

[zgoosekeeper]

yeah... I'll stick with my IPhone, thanks tho. Maybe some people would prefer to pull out a little pen and squiggle out text messages, not me. I like typing. I feel like I'm writing someone. And I'd be willing to bet that the fastest typer on the IPhone could type circles, or rings even, around the fastest ring-writer.

[21thCenturyDog]

felicitari pentru development si pentru prezentare ;)

peste 2 zile voi primi coletul cu noul meu telefon nokia 7710 :D

[thesca55]

I enjoyed very much the idea and the presentation. I would like to have such tool on my phone...I'm trying to imagine how it would look like a real pen computer (laptop, notebook) without keyboard at all and using for text entry (and not only for that) an integrated Ring Writer

[nicud1955]

A comparison of the predictive dictionaries is useful, although rather a matter of opinion. Surely the main question is whether the iPhone interface provides a method for entering and correcting text that is as convenient and elegant as the pen system illustrated in the Ring-Writer clip. Perhaps someone could make a video response showing exactly how one would complete the simple task shown on the iPhone (enter the short sentence / modify the sentence / change the format of a few words)...

[jeromerobles]

The iPhone's predictive text input is better than this method, faster and more efficient. This needs some sort of familiarization and in the iPhone, you just feel where the keys are and the predictive text corrects your words most of the time.