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ARE you sick of repeatedly poking the tiny keys on your cellphone to write
text messages, infuriated when the phone wrongly predicts what word you’re
entering, or driven mad by touch screens that convert handwriting into
gibberish?

A new British company called Co-operwrite claims to have the solution:
one-button text entry. Its system uses a navigation “rocker switch” to quickly
let you enter letters.

To use the system, called nScribe, you have to visualise a lower-case letter
then “draw” it by rocking the key left, right, up or down. To draw a lower-case
“c”, for example, the control is rocked left, then down and then right. The…

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