Apple experimenting with multitouch swipe gestures for keyboard in iOS

Appleinsider reports on Apple's U.S. Patent No. 8,542,206 for "Swipe gestures for touch screen keyboards". The patent deals in part with using various swipe-like gestures as keyboard input shortcuts.

Dryft Wants To Reinvent The Way We Type On Tablets

More news from Disrupt SF 2013 stage:

Swype co-founder Randy Marsden — along with Bridgescale Partners co-founder Rob Chaplinsky — decided to take another stab at reinventing typing on the go with an Android keyboard app called Dryft.

From Dryft's product description:

Dryft provides a true natural no-look typing experience on the screen of the tablet. It allows the user to rest their fingers on the screen and automatically brings the keys to their fingers. Then, it detects the vibration of the user tapping on a key to tell the difference between them resting and typing. It is this combination of finger tracking and touch-tap detection that makes Dryft work; and the patents for both features are already issued! ... Dryft accomplishes its magic by combining not one, but TWO sensors: touch and vibration. That makes it possible for the user to rest their fingers on the screen, the same way they would on a physical keyboard. Then, the keys “drift” to the user’s fingers and forms the keyboard around them. Next, it combines data from the device’s touch and accelerometer sensors and picks up on the vibration caused when a user taps on a key. In this way, Dryft can tell when the user is resting and typing.