COMPUTER ACCESSORIES: Typing on Glass with the No-Key Keyboard:
New inventions in all electronic equipments including computer accessories, now the latest design of computer keyboard is that, typing on flat surface is one of the ideas for future computing that never seems to completely go away. The latest is the No-Key Keyboard designed by Kong Fanwen. It features flat "keys" on flat glass. It's probably useless for real typing. It's made of glass, uses cameras and motion capture to figure out what keys you're pushing, and has some lights in it. Currently there are Bluetooth laser virtual keyboards which project "keys" onto any flat surface. Recently the X0 model 2.0 (the next One Laptop Per Child) was revealed to have two touch screens, one where the keyboard would usually be. Considering the reports on how much creeping crud we all store under the keys of our existing keyboards maybe it's a design worth considering. But without tactile feedback - a response for each key touched - it will likely remain an oddity for us touch-typists.
