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by hoodoof 2950 days ago
I love the weird, awkward social situations in the video at the tapwithus website, featuring people interacting with the tap keyboard secretly while they are talking to other people - magnificently strange.

The police will arrest you for wearing brass knuckles if you are caught using this device.

This seems to be capturing finger movements that would otherwise map to a keyboard. I wonder if there is an even more optimal way to capture finger movements and map them to input, if the idea of mapping to keyboard finger movements is discarded.
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yipbub 2950 days ago
Actually, the tap uses finger tap combinations that are mapped to keys. Ex: tap middle-finger and pinky for 'x' (no idea of what the actual key is.

Single finger taps are reserved for vowels, and trickier finger combinations are aliased to double-taps and other tricks.

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tapwithus 2950 days ago
Hey! The Tap is made with soft-touch TPU and it looks more like rings than brass knuckles. If an officer did ask to see it, they would be more interested than concerned.
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DonHopkins 2950 days ago
I'd be interested to know more about the background and history of your company and its founders, please?

And what's on the roadmap -- any plans for tactile feedback?

Are they available and shipping now? Do you ship to Europe?

Thanks for dropping by!

Did you know there used to be a magazine named Tap? And have you seen the movie "The President's Analyst?" ;) I bet the Woz would love to play around with one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNv8m2Gl3Ec

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