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quantumfluff
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posted March 21, 2002 07:22     Click Here to See the Profile for quantumfluff   Click Here to Email quantumfluff     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Siemens is showing this virtual keyboard at CeBit. Wicked cool, and (sorry I can't resist) think about the possibilities for cybersex!

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GameMaster
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posted March 21, 2002 08:15     Click Here to See the Profile for GameMaster   Click Here to Email GameMaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The keyboard is really neat, but it really doesn't solve any problems except for smaller devices like PDAs... If you are carrying a full sized screen, then adding a keyboard isn't that big of a deal. Perhaps when they make afordable headmounted or sunglass monitors that might be a waktable idea.

As for cyber sex, I am not seeing where you are comming from.

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macadddikt18
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posted March 21, 2002 08:55     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, get your head out of the gutter man. , This could be useful a network terminals too. But personally i will use my real keyboard.
Nayt

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quantumfluff
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posted March 21, 2002 10:30     Click Here to See the Profile for quantumfluff   Click Here to Email quantumfluff     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
GameMaster: It really does solve problems, the blurb mentioned that some of the uses would be places where a real keyboard has problems, like in a surgical suite. A doctor using computer assited tools could have a virtual keyboard on the sterile field.

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GameMaster
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posted March 21, 2002 10:48     Click Here to See the Profile for GameMaster   Click Here to Email GameMaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There are already other solutions for the medical feild like speah to text... Although, I can see the want and need for the keyboard in such a clean enviroment. My point is that the company that makes it is focused on mobile, and it really isn't a mobile solution for labtops yet (due to screen size.

Yes, his mind is in the gutter, and I still don't see how projecting a key board would make CS any better... guess I am jus not that imaginitve.

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macadddikt18
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posted March 21, 2002 17:42     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, i am not seeing how this would improve CS. But then again i am just not in that mindset. I am sure zorro could think of some ways.
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ZorroTheFox
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posted March 21, 2002 18:28     Click Here to See the Profile for ZorroTheFox   Click Here to Email ZorroTheFox     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The possibilites are virtually endless, though I am not sure if this is really the key to good CS. I think I'll stick to reality.........Z

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EngrBohn
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posted March 22, 2002 02:16     Click Here to See the Profile for EngrBohn   Click Here to Email EngrBohn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Z, was that an intended pun? If it was, I must complement you on your subtlety.

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GameMaster
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posted March 22, 2002 03:02     Click Here to See the Profile for GameMaster   Click Here to Email GameMaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Doesn't matter if it was or wasn't intended, now he will take credit for it..

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Hikaru
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posted March 22, 2002 04:15     Click Here to See the Profile for Hikaru     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I guess projecting the KB over a naked girl could make typing that letter to Mom more fun
but thats just me

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macadddikt18
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posted March 22, 2002 07:41     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, i had to read over zorro's post 2 or 3 times to find that pun after you said something. Zorro is getting better with his puns.
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iballoondesign
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posted March 22, 2002 10:02     Click Here to See the Profile for iballoondesign   Click Here to Email iballoondesign     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'll wait until it come attachment on PDA or something without have two devices in my pockets. ouch. Plus my Gameboy Advance.

I would to see on improve virtual keyboard like one I saw on Futurma show.

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MBoprey
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posted March 22, 2002 19:50     Click Here to See the Profile for MBoprey   Click Here to Email MBoprey     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This would be pretty nifty. However, I do like typing on a physical keyboard. I don't think I'd like a portrayed images as much.

I'm more of an Object-Kind-Of-Guy!

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macadddikt18
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posted March 22, 2002 20:19     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i bet it would be quieter though. I hate loud typers.
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ZorroTheFox
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posted March 23, 2002 07:22     Click Here to See the Profile for ZorroTheFox   Click Here to Email ZorroTheFox     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by EngrBohn:
Z, was that an intended pun? If it was, I must complement you on your subtlety.


yeppers, those puns were intended. I wasn't sure how many would catch them, but I am sure many are looking for them in My posts. I was just happy to get both in the same sentence. Thanks.
I wish that type of keyboard had been available when I was still in school. I could have blamed My incessant tapping on the desks as fingerig practice........Z

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dragonman97
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posted March 23, 2002 08:38     Click Here to See the Profile for dragonman97   Click Here to Email dragonman97     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, I don't know if quantumfluff found this story on /. or on his own, but some of the omments on /. address the issues at hand well. And macaddikt, you might not want to read this, but those of us who may have out heads in the gutter can get a laugh out of these comments. Now I just have to find someone with whom I can type my long essay. I have to make a point of ensuring the Insert key is turned on .

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macadddikt18
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posted March 23, 2002 10:11     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, just because you said i should not read them i decided to take a gander. The fist link was no good, but the second one worked. All i have to say is that some guys have way to much free time on their hands to sit and think that stuff up.
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joliet_jane
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posted March 23, 2002 12:11     Click Here to See the Profile for joliet_jane   Click Here to Email joliet_jane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If all those punk kids thought that laser pointers were fun to abuse, wait 'till they get a hold on one of these!

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quantumfluff
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posted March 23, 2002 12:48     Click Here to See the Profile for quantumfluff   Click Here to Email quantumfluff     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by dragonman97:
Well, I don't know if quantumfluff found this story on /. or on his own...

I don't read /. I am proud to say that all my dirty thoughts are the product of my own mind.

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