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Archfeld sent a strange piece of technology called the Senseboard which
is a portable keyboard, except that there's really not any keys. Or a board. And it can communicate via RF for all your strange wearable applications.
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hmmm, i'll just type this up on my invisible typewriter.... do dee doo do do
oh yeah... and first post too
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
"Talk about your vaporware!" :)
I need the clickity-clack feedback from my keyboard, I might get used to it, but I doubt this will ever catch on. Maybe it should come with a piece of paper printed with a keyboard. :P
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Oh bother.
Perhaps the "click-boing" of a Model M could be played with every sucessful keystroke.
Not all that long ago, if you saw someone walking down the street, talking to someone who wasn't there, and typing on a keyboard that wasn't there, you'd wonder what institution he escaped from.
Now, it's just an alpha geek talking on his cell phone and checking his email (with a monitor embedded in his Oakley's no doubt).
...picture this - you're sitting in the boardroom, your boss to your left side, and the prospective multi-million dollar client across the table from you, and you're taking notes on your palm pilot...
PECKING AWAY AT YOUR INVISIBLE KEYBOARD.
And you thought the Sega Activator made you look stupid.
If only my virtual girlfriend would let me buy one...
Sensors in the units measure the finger movements and artificial intelligence and a language processor determine appropriate keystrokes or mouse movements. What kind of AI? If I type in my bosses name on the virtual keyboard, will it display "Brain Damaged Lazy Bastard"?
^I habr onw, it id v3ry cppl. I an usinf it right noq! Bit I an mot a veru good tyoist. :-)
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Senseboard + MIDI = Real air guitar
In the voices of Bill and Ted: "Excellent".
When will Windows be ready for the desktop?
Are you an engineer too?
No, I'm a moron. Common mistake.
-some Dilbert comic strip on similar devices
"The Emperor's New Clothes"
by Hans Christian Andersen
"What a marvelous technological advance!"
"What an engineering coup de grace!"
Doesn't anyone see what these Senseboard Technologies AB guys are doing to us?
Duh!
;-P
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Maybe it'll just print things like *scratches head* *waves madly* *picks nose*, or other things...
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. --Sun-Tzu
Ok, I am not a touch typist, but I'll give this a shot.
[plugs in virtual keyboard]
Qokw. rthsi isd xc00; IK KUV SD'Adeh@ jooiw kne,l klweok; osoi j ihkwe isdkl oidkl asjn trhs>? Nnkle.
Hmm. doesn't work too well. I'll go back to my old way.
[loads up speech recognition program]
Their, that setter. Eye ill just stack with speech recognition. It's just work batter. New paragraph. New paragraph. NEW PARAGRAPH!
I hate technology.
SIGFEH
Yeah, it needs holographic projection as well so it's a visible virtual keyboard.
Then anybody can type like Washu...
"Sensors in the units measure the finger movements and artificial intelligence and a..."
Hey! I've seen the Matrix. It's only a matter of time before that AI turns on me and soon I'm punching my mother in the face. No thank you, AI Virtual Keyboard.
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Sometimes there's no other way to win, except by falling.
"I can use just about anything for a keyboard"... ...
...belly of my girlfriend, head of the annoying guy in the next cubicle, top of a conga drum
but really, what happens if you have an itch on your nose? with my luck scratching my neck would type rm -rf
closed minded is as closed minded does
Maybe it'll just print things like *scratches head* *waves madly* *picks nose*, or other things...
*Stop that dave*
*Dave, what would Karen think?*
*Dave, you'll go blind you know*
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
There is a certain other Slashdot reader who was playing with the Mac's speech recognition for a time when we worked in the same office in a faraway land back in 1993. It was hooked into the menu manager, and any command available on a current menu (including the systemwide apple menu) was executed if spoken.
The crowning pleasure of my long and varied life came from adding a system shutdown alias to the apple menu, and then walking up behind him and announcing "Shut down" to his computer while he was having staredowns with the monitor.
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