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Touchscreen Typing Gets a Makeover with 8pen

If you are one of the millions of smartphone users typing on a tiny, frustrating touchscreen keyboard, the 8pen app might is something you might want to try out. It’s free.

8pen’s creators, as explained in the video below, wondered what would happen if the keyboard was invented today for the purpose of use on a touchscreen smartphone. Because keyboards were designed to fit the size of human hands, the same key layout on a small phone just doesn’t work as well.

8pen is a brand new design of the keyboard with a completely different functionality than any keyboard you… Continue reading

Earn Points for Watching TV with Miso


With Miso, and its $1.5 million in new funding by investors including Google Ventures, you can actually earn points and badges for watching TV. What do you get for these points? Most likely: nothing.

Gamers have been dealing with this for years. We play games and try to gain “Achievement Points,” at least on Xbox, but you really get nothing from it. The points create new challenges, which make the games more fun, but you don’t actually get anything for the points.

I’ve always been waiting, and hoping, that Microsoft might let its Xbox users trade in their hard-earned… Continue reading