More sci-fi turned reality

�io · 2002-12-14, 10:02 PM

Our days of dreaming about an invisble keyboard are over.

www.vkb.co.il/

http://optics.org/objects/news/8/3/2...oardzoomin.jpg

BLuE_ZeRO · 2002-12-14, 10:28 PM

yay!

Led · 2002-12-14, 10:53 PM

Call me old fashioned (and I will land a Galaxy on you if you do

), 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...

/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.

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

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.

�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.