Re: [OT?] LCD/LED Keyboard

From: Alex Bochannek (alex@p9.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 21:56:49 EDT

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    As a proof-of-concept, this would be perfectly valid and reasonably easy to
    implement. As a product however, I don't think too many people would go for
    it. The group of people who are interested in zero key-travel keyboards (be
    they projection, sensor keys, reflection) is pretty finite and I would
    wonder if there is any significant overlap with the group of people who
    would want dynamic keycaps.

    As an aside, some years ago I saw an old 16mm film from Bell Labs(?) that
    showed projection on a glass surface for a complex switch operator
    interface.
    Also, a former coworker of an acquaintance of mine is working on a
    laser-based keyboard that uses beam interruption as its key switch. His
    motivation is an extreme case of RSI.

    Alex.

    --On Thursday, July 24, 2003 4:39 PM -0700 J Do <jdo@pacificlinks.net>
    wrote:

    > How about exploring a software solution, based on the projection keyboard
    > concept:
    > http://www.alpern.org/weblog/stories/2003/01/09/projectionKeyboards.html ?



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