[geeks] HOLY SHIT

[Andrew Weiss]

I actually thought of something similar when I was working at Boxx (my 
last job).  My version was basically a laptop with no keyboard.

Since our keyboard is removable, underneath is a flat plastic surface.  
My idea was to start with the trackpad first, but eventually move to the 
keyboard... paint it on... and have two or three electronic eyes 
triangulate finger motion and position.  No moving parts... no keyboard 
to replace... good for changing the size of the keyboard for smaller 
things like pda's...

The funny half-keyboards are cool too... (they had those at the embedded 
device show last year... it's called the single-handed keyboard)... it 
shifts depending on whether a key is pressed so it contains 
alternatingly one half or the other of a full size keyboard.

I also found out that I invented Ricochet without knowing about it 
(after a fashion)... I had this hair-brained idea of doing laser 
networking in blanket fashion on top of phone poles with a backup RF 
link which also allowed aiming and repositioning the lasers.  I think 
Ricochet was entirely RF on street lamps.

Andrew

On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 01:57 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 12:40:10PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:13:09PM -0800, Kurt Huhn wrote:
>>>> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020319/168/19xte.html
>>> I dunno - I need tactile feedback.  I've gotten so used to the IBM 
>>> (and
>>> similar) clicky-boards that I can't type reliably on anything else...
>>
>> Not for "permanent use" - but this would RULE for something portable to
>> use for serial consoles on colocated servers.  "just find a flat 
>> surface"...
>> Rackmount KVMs, etc.
>
> I'm having flashbacks to the shuttle controls on Earth Final Contact.
>
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> Joshua D. Boyd
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