This terrible keyboard was made with a physics algorithm

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Ah, the old QWERTYWTF keyboard layout.

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Shouldn’t a good design optimize by usage?

derp

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After years of slowly making keyboards worse, we finally have an algorithm to accelerate the process

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Gives new meaning to the “hunt and peck” method

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I’m a little confused what the purpose is. Obviously not functionality, but what do they even learn from just dropping a bunch of keys randomly?

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“How to get on bOINGbOING.”

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the Periodic Table of Elements looks a bit like a keyboard, that one is probably ripe for a conversion

in fact what am i saying, it has to have been done before. I’m not even gonna google.

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No love for the Actinides?

Uranium, Plutonium and friends would like a word with you…

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Foone is hilarious. Great person to follow on Twitter.

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Agreed. Foone is by far my favorite twitter follow.

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Looks like the jpeg cut off at the bottom. Here’s the same one with a title and complete 2nd bottom line. The first one is from NPR…guess they are anti-nuke?

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Boy, I don’t think I’d like this.

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I like it, but only if the letters appear on-screen at the same rotation that they have on the keyboard.

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I had a character in a game who I said was a graduate of the Hunton Peck School of Typewritering.

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But how does it sound?

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