Virtual Keyboard a Reality

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 20, 2002 @12:55AM from the why-the-hell-not dept.

billmaly writes "Yahoo has a photo and blurb here about a Virtual Keyboard That shows a photo and bit of text on a virtual keyboard for Palm and other mobile devices. Applications seen for mobile computing, as well as areas where a standard, physical keyboard are not practical. Very cool stuff from Siemens!"

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headline by President+Chimp+Toe · 2002-03-20 01:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Please excuse me for being a pedant, but the headline

"Virtual keyboard a reality"

is an oxymoron.
Re: Lawsuits everywhere! by somethingwicked · 2002-03-20 01:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Excellent idea (although perhaps red-on-brown isn't the most ergnomic of configurations) :)

Just wait til the lawyers get ahold of this one! Talk about an ergonomic nightmare...

"Your honor, when my client placed his virtual keyboard on a bed of nails/hot grill/downward slope/his boss' wife/Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, he was injured"

*grin*

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moderator on crack smells funny by Adolf+Hitroll · 2002-03-20 01:12 · Score: 1, Funny

So, admitting a story is a duplicate is a "Troll" ?
Wait a minute, fucking bastard !
*I* am a troll and the guy above is "insightful".

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Dear CmdrTaco by Signa1+11+on · 2002-03-20 01:14 · Score: 2, Funny

At my office, our servers have redundant power supplies. I would recommend Slashdot getting servers with redundant power supplies also if they do not already have them. See, redundant power supplies are actually the good kind of redundant, unlike the redundant stories that are published to your web site. You see redundant power supplies serve a purpose, and redundant stories just piss people off.

Please consider this in the future.
Oh just lovely by Diamon · 2002-03-20 01:15 · Score: 4, Funny

The picture on the homepage shows a virtual keyboard projected on a car dash and the driver typing while driving. Don't we have enough ways for idiots to kill themselves (and others) by distracting them while driving?
1. Re:Oh just lovely by phunhippy · 2002-03-20 01:22 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The picture on the homepage shows a virtual keyboard projected on a car dash and the driver typing while driving. Don't we have enough ways for idiots to kill themselves (and others) by distracting them while driving?
  
  --- frankly.. NO.. those people are wasting my valuable oxygen :)
NICE! by MikeDX · 2002-03-20 01:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Absolutely lovely, now when my girlfriend wants attention when im on the computer all she has to do is lie naked on me and i'll se her naked body as a keyboard :)) Now all we need is a mouse like this and we can perform the JEDI MOUSE TRICK.
1. Re:NICE! by sahala · 2002-03-20 01:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Absolutely lovely, now when my girlfriend wants attention when im on the computer all she has to do is lie naked on me and i'll se her naked body as a keyboard :)) Now all we need is a mouse like this and we can perform the JEDI MOUSE TRICK.
  I guess that will take care of that whole tactile feedback issue that a few other posters have noted.
2. Re:NICE! by VikingBerserker · 2002-03-20 02:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You won't need the mouse. I'm pretty sure you can find a suitable joystick.
3. Re:NICE! by lpontiac · 2002-03-20 03:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  when my girlfriend wants attention when im on the computer all she has to do is lie naked on me and i'll se her naked body as a keyboard :)) Now all we need is a mouse like this
  Dude, just reach down between the legs. It's like the trackpoint on a notebook :)
4. Re:NICE! by Mr.Mustard · 2002-03-20 05:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Indeed. When I posted I was half expecting to be modded down by people who couldn't tell what the hell I was going on about.
  Now why would you think that? Slashdotters may not have much experience, but we have read a lot of books...
  
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5. Re:NICE! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-20 07:30 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Dude, just reach down between the legs. It's like the trackpoint on a notebook :)
  
  Then get her to turn over and play a little Counterstrike. Your cries of "I own your ass, bitch" will be taken in an entirely different context.
Re:Speed? by Kingpin · 2002-03-20 01:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Just project onto your girlfriends butt?

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Backup often! by InsaneCreator · 2002-03-20 01:29 · Score: 4, Funny

You have the keyboard projected on you desk and your cat comes running by, stepping on the keys...

[Ctrl] + a
[Del]
[Ctrl] + s

...dead cat.
It would be cool if by s4ltyd0g · 2002-03-20 01:32 · Score: 3, Funny

I could blow this up and then walk on it. Maybe I'd get more exercise this way.
Hey Beavis, check it out by GafTheHorseInTears · 2002-03-20 02:18 · Score: 0, Funny

Huh... huh huh...

You said "Siemens".

Huh huh huh...

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Tactile, schmactile by The+Fun+Guy · 2002-03-20 03:00 · Score: 4, Funny

For those of us who learned how to type on manual typewriters, with the notice bell that dinged 5 spaces before the end of the line, and the platen return arm that you had to thwack, pressing a key with anything less than an authoritative clunk would just get you laughed at. Sure it bruised the fingertips, but we liked it that way! When a man was typing back then, he knew it, by God! Then came the newfangled electric typewriters, that only took a minicing little tap, and then these nutty TV-typewriter "word processor" things (with a keyboard that's not even decently attached to the rest of it, I might add!) that hardly even need you to push the keys at all! And now, a laser-typewriter type thing that doesn't even *have* keys? You might as well just dictate to the thing and have it magically type up your words for you like some kind of plastic secretary!

You kids think you're so smart with your rams and drivers and codes and all. I, for one, still keep my trusty can of 3-in-1 oil next to my computer. I haven't had to use it much lately, but just wait till something jams in this thing, and that smart-ass punk Corey is stumped... then we'll see who knows how to fix a broken office machine, by God!

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Re:My vision for the future... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-20 03:11 · Score: 1, Funny

"I could sit in Barnes and Noble freaking people out, talking to myself and tapping on the table."

Hell you can do that now if you want, and all you need is three or four expressos.
I can see it now.... by Dukebytes · 2002-03-20 03:24 · Score: 2, Funny

This is going to make the chat rooms a lot more fun when your cat "walks" over your key board.
I think that kitty is going to dig this one.... :)

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Re:Speed? by Psmylie · 2002-03-20 04:00 · Score: 3, Funny

That would be tricky during a board meeting. HR might get called in on that one.

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Oxymoron by sharkey · 2002-03-20 04:08 · Score: 3, Funny

So is "Slashdot Editor" for that matter.

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Re: Lawsuits everywhere! by NeoSkandranon · 2002-03-20 04:26 · Score: 4, Funny

"Your Honor, my client has an image of a standard 101 key keyboard burned into his retinas after looking directly into this dangerous mechanism to see 'if it was on'"

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OK, who's getting the money? by bluntmanspam · 2002-03-20 06:17 · Score: 2, Funny

Is this the new advertising-based model we have been hearing so much about? The same story every two days from Slashdot?
If it is, can I pay a couple of bucks to stop it?