[NTLK] [slightly OT] Re: Palm Projection Keyboard \ Newtway v2.0

From: okto (oktology_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 10 2005 - 17:45:27 PDT


Wow...how did that work?? *curiosity piqued*
Any info online about those keyboards?

On Aug 10, 2005, at 7:33 PM, John Charlton wrote:

> Can't speak for the projection keyboard, but way way back in 1979
> when I started hacking I used a "no moving parts" keyboard. Very
> cool, but quite useless for the reasons you mention. Worse still, you
> couldn't actually *touch* the keyboard because it would be
> registering hits, so you had to hover above it, and then weren't sure
> exactly where the keys were and your hands and arms would get tired.
> As a touch typist it was frustrating. I wouldn't totally agree about
> laptop keyboards. While they're not the height in ergonomics you
> don't need a lot of action, just a good feedback, to tell you that a
> key was struck.

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