virtual keyboard

[Shasturbator]

The Future Has Arrived

Remember when you were promised all those amazing future tech innovations? Just around the corner was supposed to be a shining technology utopia with flying cars, personal space travel to distant galaxies, and bio-implantable cell phones. It's almost disappointing enough to make you sit at home and watch old episodes of "Space 1999".

Don't lose hope! An amazing glimpse of this promised future has just arrived at ThinkGeek in the form of the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard. This tiny device laser-projects a keyboard on any flat surface... you can then type away accompanied by simulated key click sounds. It really is true future magic at its best. You'll be turning heads the moment you pull this baby from your pocket and use it to compose an e-mail on your bluetooth enabled PDA or Cell Phone. With 63 keys and and full size QWERTY layout the Laser Virtual Keyboard can approach typing speeds of a standard keyboard... in a size a little larger than a matchbook.



Product Features

Connects to PDAs Smartphones and Computers using Bluetooth
Projects a full size keyboard onto any flat surface
Allows the convenience of regular keyboard typing in a tiny form factor
Rechargeable battery lasts for 120 minutes of continuous typing
Tiny size only 3.5 inches high
Compatible with PalmOS 5, PocketPC 2003, Windows Smartphone, Symbian OS, and Windows 2000/XP. Limited Mac OSX Support.

[effjay]

That thing isn't as tiny as they made it seem. . .I mean, 3.5 inches. . .girls have been telling me that's HUGE for like the last ten years. . . oh wait. . .

[BttKckR]

For only $1,877.43 you could have one of these puppies as well. Granted you won't feel like fucking Johnny Mnemonic while typing... but you could have the 'B' display a picture of boobs, or maybe the 'O' could be the boobs, and the 'N' could be nipples, and the 'P' could be... I think you get where this is going.

Optimus Maximus Keyboard



Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it.

Or you could way for its big brother, now in development:

Optimus Tactus Keyboard



The entire surface is a display with the keys mapped on it. There are no physical keys, which means there are no restrictions on their shape and size.



Any part of the keyboard surface will be able to be programmed to perform any function or to display any image... or video.

[Trips]

I've played with that lazer keyboard before. It was fairly strange to type on a hard surface that doesn't have tactile feed back yet still does the clicking noise.