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�io
2002-12-14, 10:02 PM
Our days of dreaming about an invisble keyboard are over. :p

www.vkb.co.il/

http://optics.org/objects/news/8/3/26/keyboardzoomin.jpg

BLuE_ZeRO
2002-12-14, 10:28 PM
yay! :rock:

Led
2002-12-14, 10:53 PM
Call me old fashioned (and I will land a Galaxy on you if you do :angel:), but I prefer good old cheapo keyboards. $13 101 key, tough as nails, plain jane keyboards.

However, I would not mind having one of those virtual keyboards floating in midair to use as an auxiliary control panel for games... :D /geek

�io
2002-12-14, 10:58 PM
I would so want one of those infrared KBs, it's cool factor is off the charts and the best thing for a nite owl like me, no darn key sounds so people don't complain about me typing so loudly at 2am. :p

I don't think i will get one soon though since i'm sure it's like a gazillion dollars. :)

powdahound
2002-12-14, 11:43 PM
That's cool! i'd miss the sound of the keys though. :( And how does the thing register when you hit a key just with infared... i dont see how it'd work

�io
2002-12-15, 01:14 AM
Well i dunno but i assume it reads if a certain zone is blocked completly, when say the "a zone" is blocked that means your finger is on a or something along those lines.

powdahound
2002-12-15, 01:59 AM
Ya that's what I was thinking but then if you were reaching for 't' it seems like it'd be hard for it to know that your other fingers weren't going for keys around it... or some key below 't' that's covered by your hand already.

BLuE_ZeRO
2002-12-15, 02:08 AM
what if you completely blocked out the keyboard... would it type everything?

Hamma
2002-12-15, 02:50 AM
I :love: my natural keyboard

BLuE_ZeRO
2002-12-15, 02:56 AM
omg! Natural keyboard is very "Unnatural" they force us to use them at work.:mad:

�io
2002-12-15, 02:57 AM
Yeah i know that's what i was thinking too, either the sensors are extremely sensitive so they can tell which letter is 100% and not 99.99% blocked or it uses magic. :p

BLuE_ZeRO
2002-12-15, 02:59 AM
I'm thinking magic :rolleyes:

�io
2002-12-15, 03:07 AM
Yeah i think that is more likely then very sensitve sensors or some other impossible scientific explanation. :p

BLuE_ZeRO
2002-12-15, 03:10 AM
"That's some straight up David Copperfield shit right there!"

:rawr: :lol:

Tobias
2002-12-15, 06:39 PM
I know how it works but i cant tell you.

afex
2002-12-15, 07:05 PM
i saw this about a year ago.

nobody is really buying into it tho. guess people like their real keyboards better.