"Swype" Input for Touchscreen Mobile Phones

"Swype" Input for Touchscreen Mobile Phones:

The New York Times reports on a technology in development by the same inventor of T9, a predictive text input technology used by most "candy bar" phones with numeric keypads. Watch the Swype demos on YouTube.

Try it out on your iPhone or similar touchscreen device. You won't be able to type anything, but it seems to me there's a noticeable speed improvement over thumbing. This tells me the technology has potential.