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Review Of Upcoming Projection Keyboards
malpern writes "I've written a review of upcoming virtual keyboards based on published reports. There are pictures, descriptions, and details for each of the four major manufactures (Virtual Devices, Developer VKB, Canesta, and Senseboard Technologies)."
If the moment I turn one of these laser keyboards on my cat will go nuts?
That'll never fly in school. Who wasn't getting in shit all the time for drumming on the desk eh?
I want to know how you'd wedge the little light-keys off and move them around to confuse co-workers. that's gonna be hard...
i suppose you could project the keyboard onto an existing keyboard for comfort? either that or some jelly
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How am I going to piss them off now?
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If the moment I turn one of these laser keyboards on my cat will go nuts?
I wonder if my kitty takes a nap on the desk with the keyboard on, will it make a neato image of all the keys on her back?
Talk about a great way to pick up a g33k girl.
"your kitty is *so* cuuute! Hey, is that Dvorak on her ass?"
If you set this on a mirror, will all your words come out backwards?
or even Qwerty for that matter could never fit on my cat's ass.
"Is that the tilda key on your cat's ass." is more accurate
To:info@virtualdevices.net
From: Me
Subject: Vaporware
What's the deal, so you have something or not? Pictures of it actually projecting a keyboard would be nice. Somebody should tell your artist you can't see the cone of the laser in the air.
Forget that and sell your gravity defying PDA's and Cell phones that you have pictured at the bottom of the pdf.
I hope he's typing on his lap dear. Oh look, there's a policeman!
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
When my desk gets covered in paper I wounld'nt have to dig my keyboard out. I could just keeping on working over the top of it.
Bah. Might be a bit tricky to use on the bus.
There's nothing worse than being stuck in Moscow and having to use a Cyrillic keyboard, even if you touch-type it's distracting.
Well, unless you're russian, I suppose.
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
Reminds me of an old Dilbert cartoon:
Salesman: Try our FingerComputer 5000. It has a powerful AI, and implants under your fingernails so it can sense your typing. Of course, not everyone wants an intelligent computer knowing what they've been doing.
Voice from his finger: Dave, about last night...
What's this Submit thingy do?
I've been told by my daughter that occassionally she catches me typing into the bed while I sleep. Until voice recognition becomes much better technology, typing is an essential communication skill for a huge number of people.
Of course I'm one of those people who will happily read a novel on a screen, regularly used a mouse to draw complex images until I finally broke down a bought a stylus, and generally spend more than twice the amount of time talking to people on the computer than I do in real life.
Sure, keyboards are nice. Feel is important, I still miss my old clacking keyboard that went with my last computer but was destroyed by the great mineral spirits disaster in my house. But I think virtual keyboards are an important step to an eventual goal of getting rid of keyboards and mice and all sorts of other sorts of distracting clutter.
I might go for a wireless computer that sat underneath the bed, that I viewed with one of those virtual screen glasses, typed into my bedsheets/walls/kitchen counter/deck rails outside, and moused around using waves of my hand and my pointing finger. Sure I'd probably look like a complete doofus, but if I somehow were a more productive and mobile doofus I think I could live with that.
Will an infinite number of sleeping kitties on an infinite number of virtual keyboards eventually produce the great works of Shakespeare?
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.