The reason for a"second screen" GUI is that the first screen isn't big enough. To serve well as a GUI a distant TV screen should subtend a solid angle comparable to that of a (close) computer monitor screen. At 10 or 15 feet distance that's a pretty big TV screen. Bigger than 60 inches. So big that what you really want instead is a projector TV shining on most of a wall.

I think that rather than watch TV on an otherwise pretty much useless tablet, I'll wait for that projector.

Dang. 138 comments so far and unless I missed it not a single Chordite reference.

I've noticed that everyone in the world has strong opinions on chording keyboards. It's obvious that chording is slow and difficult to learn. It's also obvious that chording is easy to learn and fast. It will never catch on and it's completely inevitable. Every chording scheme is superior to every other one. Everything is obvious. No actual data are required.

... Teensy Chordite.

Jeez. They're actually having a contest to try and find something useful to do with this thing.

It's really true: once institutions gets big enough all they can manage are incremental improvements. Game changing breakthroughs, should they accidently arise internally, are actively put down by beneficiaries of the status quo.

Why not work toward solving a known problem like, say, the miserable state of mobile input technology. The main reason you can't do as much on a smart phone as you can on a desktop computer is your lousy phone keyboard.