The new method does 90 characters per minute. The original pointind click typing device piqued at around forty characters per minute, whereas this new method does about 18 words per minute. When you try to handwrite each different character, that evokes a very different pattern of noral activity for each character - which is great for b c. And obviously we hope that, yo, it can one day be turned into a product if anyone who has severe paralysis, who can't speak or communicate, could get something like this implanted.