The first third-party Android Wear keyboard curves along the Moto 360’s round face

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Android Wear is supposedly going to eschew traditional keyboard input for voice commands, due to the small screens on smartwatches. But we’ll still need to poke and peck in order to input passwords, and Miniuum wants to be the keyboard you use on your wrist. The company posted on its blog on Tuesday that it is developing a keyboard for the Moto 360, which is expected to be one of three Android Wear devices announced at Google(s goog) I/O on Wednesday .

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Unlike LG’s G Watch and the still-unnamed Samsung smartwatch, the Moto 360 will have a round face, which may pose problems for keyboard designers who are used to rectangular screens. While the post doesn’t detail exactly how the keyboard will work, the illustrated GIF shows Minuum’s trademark ribbon keyboard curving along the bottom edge of the watch face.

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