Dasher Developments

The one-dimensional version of Dasher requires the user to control only one degree of freedom. This single dimension could be easily conveyed by wrist-rotation and picked up by a tilt sensor in a palmtop computer. This would allow the user to put away the stylus and write one-handed. Information about tilt sensors.

November 2005: We now have tilt-dasher working in a Toshiba tablet PC.

Driving Dasher by Twisting

Talk about a hardware idea crying out for Dasher! The Gummi from Sony is a bendable PDA with no obvious way of entering text. The 'twist' dimension could be used to steer Dasher, and other degrees of freedom in the device could be used to stop/start/etc.