dasher

At least Dasher has a solid team behind it (former director of mobile at Gilt et al).

Here's a sketch of a design: iPhone 5 (or Android 4.0), with a picoprojector, and a multi-touch Dasher on steroids.

Have you tried using Dasher for extensive programming (or even regular text input)?

Getting back on topic, the best displays (in their day) I ever used were the Data General Dasher 2 and D200's.

I think projects like Dasher give a better sense of future directions in this area.

God, this Mackay guy gets around: Sustainable Energy, this, and the Dasher project.

You write that dasher is for the average person.

Arithmetic coding is not difficult to visualize, as the well-known Dasher applet shows, and there's no problem with giving a very general and abstract explanation rather than working through a specific implementation.

Incidentally, David Mackay's group came up with the Dasher eye-tracking user interface and a bunch of cool machine-learning stuff; and for further HN cred, one of his ex-postdocs is CTO of Songkick.

Because of the network effects of social apps, it's not really 2x for launching on another large platform - we got about 10x results from launching Dasher on Android.

I used it a while ago when my wrists were extra bad one day and found it to be pretty slow, and I found not being able to look at both dasher and my text at the same time to be super limiting.

This is the first thing listed in the "KType is not" section: "KType is not a text-entry system for average users like T9 and Dasher."

Not exactly the same thing as a YC application, but raising our seed round @ Dasher we were rejected 48 times from angels and VCs before we got our first "yes." Startup myth goes that Pandora's founder was turned down 300+ times.

Dasher is designed with accessible computing in mind, and can be driven using a wide variety of input method.

If you can write it in English, you can write it with Dasher.

Dasher has a variety of options for how to drive it.