Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The talking cure (19 Mar 2005) Even so, fiddly keypads are not going away any time soon. You cannot use a speech-driven device to make a note while talking on the phone, for example, or to send a surreptitious text message during a boring meeting. Despite being small and annoying, keypads will persist. But for the less dextrous, the new chips cannot come soon enough. Article URL: http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3713993 Read 66 more articles from Economist sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: United we find     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy