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Reinventing Text Entry for 21st Century Devices
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…reinventing text input for 21 st century devices…. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay “Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.” Antoine de SaintExupéry
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This is our presentation for the Wearables London MeetUp, on how the ETAOI Systems is reinventing text entry for 21st Century devices with the 5-TILES Keyboard. The presentation is a brief history of text entry systems, looking at why there has been so little progress, and looking at the need to start from scratch!
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…reinventing text input for 21st century devices….
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay
“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.” Antoine de Saint-‐Exupéry
“An ideal keyboard for a smart watch”
“An easier way of writing – the 5 key revolution”
“An elegant solution to the problem of small screens plus Qwerty keyboards”
PROBLEM # 1
PROBLEM # 2
Image Credit: SapientNitro at CES2014
Image Credit: Google Patent Filing 08558759
Image Credit: Chester Gould
PROBLEM # 3
SOLUTION = REINVENT
• Only 5 keys
• 70% less space
• 30 – 50 wpm
• One-handed typing
• Eyes on screen
• Smallest footprint yet
SOLUTION = REINVENT
• User-friendly text input
• Enable the “Killer Application”
• type quick replies
• enhance sensor data
• introduce check lists
• take quick notes
SOLUTION = REINVENT
Once upon a time, in the mountains of Italy, in a 5m deep hole, there was a man who just
wanted to write….
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Awards and Competitions
UKTI Stand CompeLLon Winner
Start-‐up Pitch CompeLLon Finalist
UKTI Stand CompeLLon Winner
Droidcon 2013 Demo Camp
1 of 4 out of 100s showcased to Merkel & Cameron at CeBIT
1 of 4, out of 100s showcased at CeBIT to Angela Merkel & David Cameron
• Non-feature phones have small screens
• Primary or only access to Internet
• High % non-QWERTY
• BRIC new users
• Pre-teen new users
Growing Smart Phone Market
iOS 8 – the biggest release since the App Store - will open up the system keyboard to 3rd parties
Opening iPhone Market = 300m+
Emerging Wearables Market
• Smart watches could easily eat into the low-end smart phone market
• Developer numbers growth
• From 40 to 200 brands entering the market
• 1 in 20 smart phones will be paired with a smart watch
CEO Michal Kubacki is an inventor, scriptwriter, author and website developer with 3 years supervisory experience in food retail. He ran his own photography & design agency for 3 years.
CTO Fabio Carta has been working as a software developer for 3 years, in ASP.NET framework, MVC, Android SDK framework, SQL Server, Java and C. He has a degree in Information Technology from the University of Pisa.
CMO Margaret Gold is a mobile industry veteran with over 10 years experience as an innovation & business launch specialist, working with a wide range of start-ups and corporate ventures.
She has an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management. linkedin.com/margaretgold
CFO Piotr Pieczynski is a Chartered Accountant with 3 years experience with an AIM-quoted UK technology firm, as their
operations accountant, and a global accounting firm, specializing in corporate finance.
Founding Team
We are now raising Seed
• £150,000 Seed Round
• SEIS qualified
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CONTACT: Margaret Gold, CMO/ [email protected] / @MobileMaggie
ONLINE: http://fivetiles.com / @fivetiles / https://www.youtube.com/user/ETAOIkeyboard
