Microsoft's Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard

Its a  prototype right now, but the pressure-sensitive keyboard Microsoft has cooking up promises to make your typing far more efficient.As an example, font size could be changed based on how much pressure we apply to a key during typing and typos could be reduced by gauging the pressure applied to simultaneously pressed keys in order to determine intent. And, of course, varied pressure on a key could make gaming controls more interesting. Just press harder to make the player run, and lighter to make player walk.



This technology would help on instant messaging. So if I wanted to say “I LOVE you”, no switching to boldface before or after is required. Any word or words that I want emphasized could be done so in realtime by simply banging on the keys harder. It would also help lot in case of  editing. Imagine if you could hit your Backspace key a little harder, then the last word would be eliminated instead of the the last character. That would speed things up a bit, wouldn’t it? Overall it will help to increase the efficiency of the user typing.