Inspiration

The keyboard is one of most frequently used tools on our planet! This makes they keyboard the perfect target for innovation and improvement.

TiltBoard

To understand the future one must understand the past. As mobile keyboards have evolved, a trend jumps out.

Back in the days of the Nokia brick, typing a single character required several key presses. As technology progressed full, qwerty keyboards emerged requiring only one touch per character. Then came what was, until now, the current generation: swipe keyboards. A whole word squeezed into a single touch.

It became obvious that the next step was a zero-touch keyboard!

ComboBoard

The major limitation of both qwerty and swipe keyboards is the amount of movement and accuracy required. It severely limits the speed at which a user can produce their message, which as a service which all of us use several times a day incurs a huge cost in the long run. To combat this we've developed ComboBoard, a keyboard which generates input based on the combination of buttons pressed which means the number of keys and therefore finger movement is drastically brought down.

What it does

Both keyboards can be used as the default input source, replacing the obsoleted keyboards currently shipped with Android!

How we built it

Blood, sweat and tea.

Challenges we ran into

Using any other keyboards after experiencing the future for keyboards.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Pushing the boundaries for keyboard technologies

What we learned

Kotlin

What's next for SpeedBoards

Equidistant holes in TiltBoard

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