By no means do I want to attack the holiness of vim (or emacs for that matter), and I get the idea of "text manipulation using solely the keyboard is far more efficient than using the mouse".... but... keyboards suck too!

I understand that introducing a new mechanism for text entry is hard and going to throw a lot of people off ("but I'm already fast at the keyboard/mouse!") but I really wish we have come up with something better by now. Multitouch gestures? suck at text entry. Voice recognition? Sucks AND awkward. Handwriting recognition? sucks and sometimes slower. I've seen the frogpads and Shark ( http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/topics/virtualkeyboard.htm ) is pretty intriguing.... but there has to be something better that would blow vim/emacs/IDEs/N++ out of the water. Anybody have any ideas what that would look like?