Minuum Has Developed A Google Glass Keyboard

Minuum has completed a prototype keyboard for Glass based on their unique Android keyboard. The keyboard started out as a humble Kickstarter, but was well received by its community. Minuum was developed with the idea of saving screen space with a highly-compacted keyboard enhanced by current keyboard standards: prediction algorithm and auto-completion suggestions.

Just even looking at the design of the keyboard, it’s easy to see how this would suit Glass’s touch panel. Minuum’s teaser video shows the standard keyboard in action:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcHzO3-QEg[/youtube]

The first half or so of the video shows the actual functionality of the device which is driven by changes in the accelerometer(s) via the user turning their head, while tapping to select the group of letters. It looks a little odd, but not perhaps as odd as using what looks like Nod Labs’ smart ring to point around in public to type a message out.

The video also shows potential for eye-tracking to select letters. Again, cool idea…but maybe a little weird and impractical. My favorite goes to the augmented reality arm-board.

Of course, it’s not going to look like it does in the image above, since Glass’s screen is limited to what you’d be seeing in the top right. But if Glass can manage to track the users arm and hand and display it near real-time on the display, that’s pretty impressive.