Well this is promising, especially for old-schoolers like me who learned to touch-type on an actual typewriter. I type about 60 WPM without looking at my hands, but little bumps on the 'j' and 'f' keys tell my fingers they are in the correct position. Without this, my fingers can gravitate all over the place.

Thanks for posting hope!

This would be most useful for vehicular applications where eyes really need to be somewhere else. Haptics is something that really shouldn't be overlooked when it comes to certain types of UIs.

That's why I see a lot of current generation fancy touch-screen systems as a big failure when compared to the logically placed buttons and dials for my radio and climate control in my older model car. I can reach and tell exactly what I'm doing by position and feel only, and people in newer fancy-schmancy cars can't.

Of course if the UIs use touch, they shouldn't change state until there's a positive haptic feedback of some form. Don't want a button registering as pressed if I'm using the sense of touch to feel out where the button next to it is. It means that such a device will also have to register pressure sensitivity in addition to location. Hopefully people developing this stuff have figured that out and don't cheap-out and cut corners in that regard.

A Utah teen is the current record holder, sending a 160-character standardized message in 42.22 seconds.

It just takes practice my friend.

I always misspell things when typing on your touch screen phone.Moreover typing "hello" is so irritating.I really despise the person who invented touch screen phones.