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To: voop who wrote (1451)	1/22/2001 8:20:01 AM
From: John Finley	Respond to of 1820

Re: anticipative computing/mobile input ease TMTA has probably got their finger on that pulse. I wonder how the input devices for folks using just their eyes and mouth are coming? I remember seeing a laser eye-tracking application somewhere. With small cheap lasers available I wouldn't think that the mechanicals would be that expensive. Then you would just need a jaw (teeth) or tongue microswitch. Supposedly there is a greater areal density of nerves on the tip of the tongue than anywhere else. We use the tongue for precise and repeatable speech but getting it to type?!? Kinda gross too... Actually cursor movement could easily be done by a thumb trackball or tracking buttons (or whatever they call those things on laptops), however inputting alphanumerics would take too long.... I think that Voice recognition is what makes CyberDisplay take off Yes, that certainly would solve most of the problems. We'll probably see a useful embedded limited-vocabulary mobile soon. It's just that speech recognition is an extremely hard thing to do... Also, people lose their patience quickly when it falters. I think they figure that the machine must be stupid <VBG>. Or they figure that the machine is mounting a personal attack cuz they can't say it right... JF