This was pretty interesting, and well put together. The laser keyboard already exists, but I don’t think it will ever be more than a “cool idea”. There is just no tactile feedback, which REALLY hampers productive typing. Just think back to the times you have used bad keyboards, or heck, just keyboards you are not used to using.
Two closing thoughts: First, I hope we have better than Bluetooth for wireless communications by the time something like this happens. Finally, if computers this advance are still running an OS as ugly as WinXP, well…
You really have to wonder why they used XP for this video, and why they added the fake “video interference and distortion”. I think at least Vista would have been better, but Mac OSX would have been best.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
This was pretty interesting, and well put together. The laser keyboard already exists, but I don’t think it will ever be more than a “cool idea”. There is just no tactile feedback, which REALLY hampers productive typing. Just think back to the times you have used bad keyboards, or heck, just keyboards you are not used to using.
Two closing thoughts: First, I hope we have better than Bluetooth for wireless communications by the time something like this happens. Finally, if computers this advance are still running an OS as ugly as WinXP, well…
You really have to wonder why they used XP for this video, and why they added the fake “video interference and distortion”. I think at least Vista would have been better, but Mac OSX would have been best.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:38 am
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