Virtual Keyboard
Not unlike Tonia Welter's keyboard I mentioned before, this new virtual keyboard doesn't give a hoot about typing ergonomics and carpal tunnel syndrome. Instead, it eschews the need for an actual physical keyboard by just having a projector display the entire full size qwerty keyboard on a flat surface. Apparently, it even reaches typing speeds with a real keyboard. Now, whilst I find that this sounds like a great idea for a travel keyboard at first, I realise how wrong I am. Since you'lll most probably be travelling with a laptop. this keyboard will probably only come into use if you either hate laptop keyboards and much prefer flat projected ones or you hate real life keyboards and would much rather plug in a glowing red virtual one to your desktop instead. Sounds to me like this keyboard is more virtual than it thinks.
The best suggested use for this baby is with PDAs. But surely the non laptop toting PDA evangelists with zero access to desktops but full access to flat surfaces in areas with low lighting must be a rare breed.
Still, its promising to note that we can do away with physical objects in this manner and perhaps developments along this line could lead to new interfaces that might actually be more useful.
