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#47226 - 19/11/2001 14:50 Air Typing
eternalsun
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Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
http://www.senseboard.com/products.htm

Imagine hooking up one of these to an empeg?

Calvin

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#47227 - 19/11/2001 19:00 Re: Air Typing [Re: eternalsun]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Sweet. Now I just need to pick out a song for my Empeg to play when I'm giving people the finger.
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#47228 - 19/11/2001 23:33 Re: Air Typing [Re: eternalsun]
dionysus
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Registered: 16/06/1999
Posts: 1222
Loc: San Francisco, CA
Looks like vaporware if I've ever seen it.. notice the broad statements that they've patented this idea? i.e. - if someone DOES build it, they can claim that they thought of it first...

Patents suck.
-mark
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#47229 - 20/11/2001 02:18 Re: Air Typing [Re: dionysus]
mtempsch
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Registered: 02/06/2000
Posts: 1996
Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden
Since they're a swedish company, I'll see if there somewhere one can take a look or try it...

Since the University of Uppsala is involved (looks like a spin-off company from a research project) I doubt it's totally vapor...

/Michael
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#47230 - 20/11/2001 07:37 Re: Air Typing [Re: dionysus]
CyberGlitch
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Registered: 04/10/2001
Posts: 99
Loc: VA, USA
Aparently they already have created a working model and are displaying and demoing it at comdex this year. I saw this on another website with pictures of the actual demo they where using. Yes it looks like it would be a cool idea but the demo they where displaying had "ring" like thing you slip on each finger and then wires all over the place. I think they might be able to get a good working model but of course they have a little ways to go till a finished product. The idea is great and so far it looks as if these guys might be able to implement it just as well.
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#47231 - 20/11/2001 12:00 Re: Air Typing [Re: CyberGlitch]
eternalsun
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Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
That's a different company, one of their competitors.

Calvin

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#47232 - 20/11/2001 12:01 Re: Air Typing [Re: dionysus]
eternalsun
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Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
It was demoed at Comdex. Apparantly, it takes a little getting used to. The demonstrator was able to work it fine, however, when one of the reporters tried it, all he irked out of it was gobbedegook. But it's a start!

There was another company, one of their competitors, with a similar virtual keyboard. The competitor had to put on a thing on each finger. Theirs you just wear a pair on your hands.

Calvin

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#47233 - 20/11/2001 12:26 Re: Air Typing [Re: eternalsun]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
I'm looking forward to getting my normal dose of RSI without having to actually touch a keyboard...
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#47234 - 20/11/2001 12:28 Re: Air Typing [Re: andy]
eternalsun
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Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
Imagine a subway full of people, with their hands on their knees, silently typing away. Perhaps with an earpiece and one of those eyeglasses with built in monitor things.

Calvin

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#47235 - 20/11/2001 15:14 Re: Air Typing [Re: eternalsun]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
That brings to mind the Borg, now I'm really scared !
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#47236 - 20/11/2001 17:33 Re: Air Typing [Re: eternalsun]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
I so wanted to post this Dilbert comic I know exists somewhere, but I can't find it. In it, Dogbert (I think) foresees a future when computers will have only virtual interfaces and engineers will walk around wearing VR headsets and typing in the air on non-existant keyboards. In the last panel, Wally is walking around twiddling his fingers in mid-air and someone asks ``So -- are you an engineer?'', to which he responds, ``No. Just a spaz.''

Man, I wanted to find an image of it, but to no avail. Loses quite a bit in the translation.
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#47237 - 20/11/2001 18:41 Re: Air Typing [Re: wfaulk]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Greetings!

I was thinking of the same image, but I cannot remember the date.
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#47238 - 21/11/2001 11:04 Re: Air Typing [Re: andy]
eternalsun
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Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
All they need now is contact lenses with built in displays.

Calvin

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