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We’re typing this using CreaWriter, a free Windows text editor designed to “increase your productivity and creativity” by decluttering your screen and covering up your endless flashing widgets, Twitter feeds and IM distractions.

Opening up to fill your screen with a suitably soothing sunset image, the minimalist interface aims to serve up a distraction free environment, with only the orangey sunset hues and the sound of gently trickling water for company.

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Billing itself as the ‘next generation for text input’ and, “perfect for today’s screens,” Swype certainly looks an interesting proposition for manic mobile emailers and torrential texters.

“Coming soon to a device near you,” Swype is designed to provide a nippier way to get text on any screen, and lets users whizz out words with one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard.

The company claims that the patented technology can let users hit speeds of over 50 words per minute, and the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.

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