John McKown, an inventor in Scottsdale, AZ, abandoned long-standing ideas about how people input data and how computers receive it. He has won a patent for a wearable, one-handed keyboard that lets users type as they pace around an office, walk down the street, lean back in an airplane seat or are passing time standing around. "Within a week I had memorized all the chords, though I still had to think about them. Within two months I'd learned it all instinctively, and that was through purely accidental learning. I'd pick it up whenever I had a minute. Now I'd never go back to a Qwerty board ..." |
