Old as shiat. This thing doesnt work at all BTW.

gotta give props for the headline tho

Old

It's old and doesn't work from what I read.

Um, Im gonna side with everyone else and say that this is new.
I mean not new.

good lord, call the timecops

This was in my Maxim like a year ago, I'm sure it was around for years before that..

Old.................

Major issue is that your fingers cast shadows in the course of your typing, preventing you from seeing lower keys.

Old and Busted.

saw that a long time ago(years), and it recently made a list of one of the worst inventions in some certain amount of time, apparently it was terrible

I always wanted to post this:

1986?

I remember seeing one of these things about 8 years ago...
THEY DON'T WERK!

/bitter
//drunk

Can I use that to play World of Warcrap on my PDA ?

Wheren't those things around when they where still using vacume tubes lol.....

TheIronJef:

OK, once my fingers are on the home row, and my index fingers are on f and j, why do I need to seeeee the keys?

Is touch typing a lost skill? Maybe the future is computers sans keyboards and all just deal with repeating things until the Komputer hears it right.

Everyone is being too nice. The headline sucks too. Whoa, a headline with "laser" and "shark" in it. Who could have ever come up with THAT!

/Having a shiatey night
//Sharing the joy

To be cool, they'd need to make one of these that emits neutrinos which cause the table-top to glow, but pass right through your fingers. Then you'd be able to take something that was akin to a Type II supernova to Starbucks!

Or you could just use a fold up keyboard...

The best part is that it'll kill your hands.

Ric Romero reporting on new infrared computers. They work on my windows PC!

Rotten_Peaches: Is touch typing a lost skill?

It ain't the only lost skill.

A manager I worked with used to hold a conversation while touch typing. It was unnerving.

The other 99% I know can't touch type at all.

My typing is half by touch. I've been typing so damned long that I cn tpe without lookin at the keyboar dmcuh

Also, I'd just like to point out that this is old news.

I wirj fir the jeybiard nanyfactyrer,

Si U an gettung a bug jucj iyt if these reokues,

KidneyStone:

Thanks for your post, it made me laugh. That's a good thing.

That keyboard may be old and crappy but this "pistol vase" is teh sassy:

old news... as if that hadn't been said enough.

Rotten_Peaches

OK, once my fingers are on the home row, and my index fingers are on f and j, why do I need to seeeee the keys?

Is touch typing a lost skill? Maybe the future is computers sans keyboards and all just deal with repeating things until the Komputer hears it right.

Granted, but if you don't need to see the keys why have glowy projecty ones in the first place? Also, I imagine touch typing gets a lot harder on a bar.

KidneyStone: A manager I worked with used to hold a conversation while touch typing. It was unnerving.

I can do that.

But my speed drops to around 60 WPM when I'm talking and typing at the same time (instead of my regular 100 WPM).

/Also, I can't type for shiat on a laptop keyboard, 40 wpm tops.

//Also can't type for shiat on those split/angled keyboards either, ergonomic my ass

///Also never had any problems with carpal tunnel, 20 years of fapping typing has ensured that I don't have limp wrists.

Nice pistol vase.

Rivethead

Cool!

End of Line...


/Space Paranoids?

TheIronJef:

Good point. I need the little nubs on the f and j so I know where I am. Without those little nubs, I'd need to see the keys so I know where to put my fingers. Distraction is also a problem; if I see gibberish on the screen, I know it's time to check hand placement.

lordargent:
Yes, notebook keyboards are horrid for those who learned to type on typewriters (me) or full size keyboards. However, the sheer coolness of technology like notebook computers amazes a guy like me. My first computer class used paper tape (tehsuxorzzz as you youngsters might say)

/I was in highschool when calculators (Intel 4004) first appeared, the first one my dad bought for his business cost $125 and was about as useful as the 4-function calculators given away for free at gas stations, banks, etc.

That is a bit older than this:

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

I think this is an awesome keyboard.

datafox: That is a bit older than this:

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

I think this is an awesome keyboard.

Oh hell yeah... I've wanted something like that for YEARS.

Yeah, this is *old*. Even by fark "news" standards.

As for touchtyping: I sort of do. I don't do standard touchtyping, but I hardly ever have to look down at the keys and I use all my fingers (except maybe my pinkies). And I type 70+WPM. Spending most of your teenage years doing 5 IMs at once will do that. Plus my hands just plain don't like the position standard touchtyping requires for the bottom row.

I also hate those farking "ergonomic" keyboards; my personal typing style requires me to be able to reach across the dividing line (I usually hit y with my left index finger), and it's just plain distracting. Although trying to type punctuation on a British keyboard is worse.

And most laptop keyboards do suck. They're too flat and they're too slow to respond. I've tried a bunch of different ones, because I want to get a laptop in the next year or so, and Toshiba's actually feel more like real keyboards.

I got mine something like a year ago. Hardware works great, software is crap. It's not much faster than T9 input for SMS chat stuff, but if you need to SSH into a server and fix something it's much faster.

Has anyone mentioned how old this technology is?

Model M, biatches!

datafox: That is a bit older than this:

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

I think this is an awesome keyboard.



Aye, but I will be buying one of those! (when they come out with an ergonomic (sp?) version.)

who needs a keyboard when you can write on the screen?

/just got a tablet
//has chicken scratch for handwriting.
///still loves this thing.
////slashies are more fun with a pen.

Laser projected keyboard. Sharks not included

...Submitter?

There is no cooler keyboard in the known universe.

http://www.artlebedev.ru/portfolio/optimus/
ORLY?

Isn't this 10 years old?

The annoying thing is that this company is getting a whole stack of free advertisitng becoz the subnmitter wet his pants over this piece of pompous technology