Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard (check this out)

[michaelj1981]

so a friend of mine showed me this so i thought i would share with you all Hope you like cuz i know i do....might buy one sometime next year.


Remember when you were promised all those amazing future tech innovations? Just around the corner was supposed to be a shining technology utopia with flying cars, personal space travel to distant galaxies, and bio-implantable cell phones. It's almost disappointing enough to make you sit at home and watch old episodes of "Space 1999".
Don't lose hope! An amazing glimpse of this promised future has just arrived at ThinkGeek in the form of the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard. This tiny device laser-projects a keyboard on any flat surface... you can then type away accompanied by simulated key click sounds. It really is true future magic at its best. You'll be turning heads the moment you pull this baby from your pocket and use it to compose an e-mail on your bluetooth enabled PDA or Cell Phone. With 63 keys and and full size QWERTY layout the Laser Virtual Keyboard can approach typing speeds of a standard keyboard... in a size a little larger than a matchbook.


Product Features

• Connects to PDAs Smartphones and Computers using Bluetooth
• Projects a full size keyboard onto any flat surface
• Allows the convenience of regular keyboard typing in a tiny form factor
• Rechargeable battery lasts for 120 minutes of continuous typing
• Tiny size only 3.5 inches high
• Compatible with PalmOS 5, PocketPC 2003, Windows Smartphone, Symbian OS, and Windows 2000/XP. Limited Mac OSX Support.

here is a youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKmQ...eature=related

[aesoprock00]

i actually played with one of those not too long ago. it's pretty slick, but really just as a geek toy and not for functionality. it needs to be on a completely flat surface for all the keys to work. and even then, you're just tapping on a table, there's no feedback like a keyboard would give. also, depending on how you hold your hands, if you block the sensor some of the keys won't register. don't expect to use this on a magazine or in your car, you'll need a completely flat table or something rigid.

a very interesting bit of technology, but it still has a little bit to go before it can be used to replace a real keyboard (though for a PPC device it's not terrible).

[michaelj1981]

o yea hmm maybe i'll get one when it is more advanced with less issues

[Bruh Man]

I want it now

[soinkster]

I played with one in the airport ... na

[topdawgn8]

You can find these at iwantoneofthose.com. They have lots of neat and oddball stuff there.

[shaggylive]

I'd been waiting for a tread to pop up on this... read about it in popsci many years ago..
sounds like all my assumptions were correct... ie flat surface..

[the_goldentiger]

Originally Posted by michaelj1981

so a friend of mine showed me this so i thought i would share with you all Hope you like cuz i know i do....might buy one sometime next year.


Remember when you were promised all those amazing future tech innovations? Just around the corner was supposed to be a shining technology utopia with flying cars, personal space travel to distant galaxies, and bio-implantable cell phones. It's almost disappointing enough to make you sit at home and watch old episodes of "Space 1999".
Don't lose hope! An amazing glimpse of this promised future has just arrived at ThinkGeek in the form of the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard. This tiny device laser-projects a keyboard on any flat surface... you can then type away accompanied by simulated key click sounds. It really is true future magic at its best. You'll be turning heads the moment you pull this baby from your pocket and use it to compose an e-mail on your bluetooth enabled PDA or Cell Phone. With 63 keys and and full size QWERTY layout the Laser Virtual Keyboard can approach typing speeds of a standard keyboard... in a size a little larger than a matchbook.


Product Features

• Connects to PDAs Smartphones and Computers using Bluetooth
• Projects a full size keyboard onto any flat surface
• Allows the convenience of regular keyboard typing in a tiny form factor
• Rechargeable battery lasts for 120 minutes of continuous typing
• Tiny size only 3.5 inches high
• Compatible with PalmOS 5, PocketPC 2003, Windows Smartphone, Symbian OS, and Windows 2000/XP. Limited Mac OSX Support.

here is a youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKmQ...eature=related

mmmm some one talked about this last year. Is not new but thanks