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Dasher text input
Dasher is a very clever text input system for use with mice, eye-trackers, or any other two-axis input device. Great for people with fewer than two hands or devices where a full keyboard won’t fit. They have Unix-X11, Windows, MacOS X, and Pocket PC software available for download, all licensed under GPL.
The user is presented with a window with the alphabet at the right. Move the pointer right of center and the letters move left toward it and zoom larger. The clever bit is that the space devoted to each letter is not fixed but depends on the probability of that being the next letter in the current context. Sometimes whole words practically spell themselves out. It’s actually kind of fun, which is much more than I can say for most input gadgets.
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