ShapeWriter™ Inc.'s innovative shape writing technology – previously known as Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding (SHARK) – is so exciting that it has already got the international press buzzing for many years.
Top 11 iPhone Applications
A hidden gem, this little app allows you to circumvent the iPhone's standard hunt-and-peck fingertip typing...
  Time.com
December 21, 2008
  Android "ShapeWriter": Ingenious New Touch Screen Keyboard
One of the top 50 Winners for Google's first round of Android Development Grant money, ShapeWriter creates a brilliant new way to quickly and accurately make use of a touch screen keyboard...
  Digg.com
May 13, 2008
  Research focusing on handheld devices
...Shumin Zhai, from IBM's Almaden
research lab in San Jose, Calif., and Per-Ola Kristensson, from Linkoping University in
Sweden, have developed a way to write words via a few, linked strokes of a stylus...
  San Jose Mercury News
April 8, 2003
New Way Of Writing
Text entry software spell relief for weary BlackBerry thumbs...
  San Jose Mercury News
July 15, 2005
  Text Entry Epiphany for the Tablet PC- SHARK
"...what I feel is a revolutionary breakthrough... best on-screen text entry system I have ever used. This method is so simple and accurate it amazes me every time I use it. It is a must try for every user of a Tablet PC or other touchscreen enabled computer."
  James Kendrick's top ten tech blog
November 03, 2004
Total recall boosts PDA writing.
The idea of remembering word patterns and connecting the dots might not sound like an easy way to write an e-mail...
  BBC News World Edition
August 15, 2007
  SHARK spells relief for tired thumbs
"Zhai gave a presentation on SHARK earlier this month during a conference at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., where he works, and his ideas led me to one of those rare eye-opening moments when you suddenly see what could be the answer to a long-festering problem..."
  The Seattle Times
August 29, 2005
Digitales Kalligrafie.
Nur mühsam lassen sich Wörter in Handcomputer und Handys eintippen. Eine neue Technik beschleunigt die Eingabe enorm...
  Die Zeit
September 1, 2005
  Shark streamlines writing interfaces
"Sitting at a table in a small conference room, research student Per-Ola Kristensson slides a stylus in a seemingly random zigzag across a grid of letters on a tablet computer...."
  The Irish Times
July 7, 2005
Dra ett streck över din sms-tumme
Snart kan du skriva sms dubbelt så snabbt.
Tacka Per Ola Kristensson för det.
27-åringen har utvecklat ett nytt, revolutionerande skrivsystem för mobiltelefoner.
  Aftonbladet
February 8, 2007
New-age keyboard: Trace, don't write
Shark (Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding) is an advanced pen-based shorthand method that allows users to input words into mobile devices by tracing them letter by letter on a virtual keyboard....
  CNET
July 11, 2005
Kurzschrift für Mini-Monitore
"Forscher des IBM Almaden Research Center haben eine neue Methode erfunden, Texte mit kleinen mobilen Geräten einzugeben. Dabei arbeiten sie mit einer virtuellen Tastatur, auf der sie rasch Zeichenfolgen markieren können...."
  Handelsblatt
July 25, 2005
  Do not ditch the stylus just yet
...IBM has developed a way to write with a stylus that lets users reach 80 words per minute with minimal training...
  New Scientist
July 30, 2005
  Best IPhone Apps: Office and Personal Productivity
These iPhone applications help extend your business desktop to the phone...
  PCWorld
January 06, 2009
  SHARK spells relief for tired thumbs
"...a radically different approach that is easy to learn and fast."
  Mike Langberg's tech column
August 29, 2005
Innovation: The mobile future of the keyboard
Cellphone users don't have it easy – many enter far more letters than numbers into their gadgets, but most phones still make you do so using a number pad. Meanwhile, the designers of smart phones seem determined to make touchscreen keyboards the norm before they have been fully perfected.
  NewScientist
April 02, 2009


These are just a few of the glowing mentions Shape Writing technology has received from a wide variety of media outlets around the world. For a full list of articles and other press, please email contact@shapewriter.com.


 
   
 
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