The military's enjoyed lit-LCD-in-a-pushbutton for years. I saw a panel of them when interviewing at L3 communications and I wanted SO MUCH to program and play with them!
I'm really disappointed with the lack of progress with alternate input devices. 2 years ago I returned to college for my master's degree, starting with a course in Ubiquitious/pervasice computing. Chording keyboards were invented in the 60s are are STILL rare, despite "The Twiddler" and others intended for wearable computing.
I forgot the name of the device, but Bell Labs made a keyboard-like device that strapped to your wrist (or arm?) that sensed your fingertaps as transmitted thru your bone!
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Date: 2005-07-14 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-14 07:31 pm (UTC)I am still geekin' on the projection keyboard:
http://www.alpern.org/weblog/stories/2003/01/09/projectionKeyboards.html
Apparently, people are lookin' at ways to project the keyboard in mid air!
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Date: 2005-07-14 07:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-14 08:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-14 08:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-14 08:47 pm (UTC)(Apart from the Enter key being slightly off - but that's not unheard of.)
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Date: 2005-07-14 11:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-14 10:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-15 12:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-15 09:16 am (UTC)I'm really disappointed with the lack of progress with alternate input devices. 2 years ago I returned to college for my master's degree, starting with a course in Ubiquitious/pervasice computing. Chording keyboards were invented in the 60s are are STILL rare, despite "The Twiddler" and others intended for wearable computing.
I forgot the name of the device, but Bell Labs made a keyboard-like device that strapped to your wrist (or arm?) that sensed your fingertaps as transmitted thru your bone!