The former CTO of fast-growing Wilmington startup Next Glass has launched his own new venture with the aim of changing the future of how we type. Is “CrossTap” the software you will use to type messages on multiple devices in the future?

“CrossTap: Universal typing software from the future,” is how Forrest Maready describes his new venture.

“Our thumbs have become the main input for nearly any digital device. CrossTap is designed from the ground up to work with two fingers in such a way that you can type nearly the same on any device- phones, tablets, game controllers even cars,” the founder explains. (You can watch a video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7EDkhhhL4A)

CrossTap emerged from stealth mode over the weekend with a launch of a kickstarter campaign. Maready already has recruited a team of four developers and is aiming to offer the software in multiple languages. The group has already raised $2,115 from 43 backers.

The money goal is $72,000.

So what’s this all about?

“CrossTap is typing software. With it, you can type really fast on any device- smart phones, tablets, game controllers, even cars,” Maready writes in a kickoff blog.

“Typing is broken,” he insists.

He’s write – er, right. Especially for fat-fingered people like me whose digits mix with touch screens about as well as oil and water.

“Trying to type on anything but a full-size QWERTY keyboard can be challenging. Smart phones, with all of their amazing features have moved backwards in typing efficiency. Entering text on game controllers can be a nightmare, and we only do it if we absolutely must. Set top boxes are the worst offenders. Try searching for a show on your cable/satellite box and you’ll know what I’m talking about,” Maready explains.

For one, thing, he notes: “We don’t type with 10 fingers anymore.”

(Secret: I never have. Hunt and peck. Four, five fingers at most – but I’m still very fast.)

Maready, who once worked at ad agency McKinney and now lives in Wilmington, was chief technology officer at Next Glass. Based on how that company has performed, Maready brings a strong reputation to his new venture.

“Previously I’ve designed and developed software for the film industry, the advertising industry, and the consumer app space,” he writes in his bio.

Among his programmers in Cayley Pater, whom Maready notes can speak “Hindi-Urdu, Farsi, Spanish, German, is studying Arabic and will be leading the language map efforts of CrossTap.”

How long will it be before CrossTap moves into Mandarin or Japanese? Not long, is The Skinny’s bet.