Future keyboards

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The Future Has Arrived

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 convinence 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.

read about it here : http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/

Slowhand

I've gotten a chance to try it out, and I have to say that I like it. It doesn't support my lightning-fingers (read "lightning-typos"), but it's a very cool keyboard and handy for my PDA when I'm out and about. If you can learn to lift your fingers a little higher from the "keys", and slow down the typing to a controllable speed, it works like a charm.

Danman32

I heard and saw (not in person) this a few years ago. I don't know why I haven't seen them become more popular.

I too have been thinking about the 'promises of the future' and how many of them have not come to pass.

But some did!

Megadeth4168

I read about this a few years back... I thought it sounded really cool... Still does actually.

SRTMCSE

if it were a little bit cheaper I think it'd catch on real fast. i wish it was around $100

bighornsheep

The future WAS here already.

I worked for a company that specialized in the PDA and handheld market. I joined the company in March 2005, and they had already been carrying that product since Christmas of 04. I *think* this was actually introduced at Consumer Electronics Show way back in 2003.

The company is called iTech, they also have other interesting things such as A2DP headphones and remote control.

The keyboard works best on word with paint that is one shading, I find it doesnt work that well if its on a slope, but generally it's a good thing to have.

http://www.itechdynamic.com/en/products_spec.asp?cid=7&pid=07010

KGhaleon

bah, we all need keyboards like this in the future:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8396/

Who needs simplicity?

KG