Re: Re: Kinesis sighting - and the Fellowes Stowaway

kattdood wrote:
> The Kinesis does look futuristic. Perhaps someone has used one in 
> some near-future movies? Far-future movies (eg Star Trek) would 
> probably have entirely different keyboards anyway.
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Absolutely!  They don't type in Star Trek - remember Scottie with the 
mouse in IV?

Naw, we've been waiting a while, but things will go start to go verbal 
once the hardware can keep up (which it *almost* can, but not quite).

I only say 'start', because the other half of that equation is of course 
the fact that writing & speaking use two different parts of the brain, 
so one can't really say that just because you *can* talk into your 
'puter, you always *should*.  (For one thing, the sheer volume in an 
office environment would drive many batty, even if everyone around you 
had to keep it down by mumbling.  Maybe more so if some decibel-shy 
group manager made sure everyone around you *had to* mumble.)

Then again, they're doing wonders with prosthetics these days, and the 
benefits of that research will be enormous.  Perhaps before long we may 
solve the proverbial two birds & just think in typing.  Were that to 
occur, it would be interesting to see if any correlation was made to 
RSI, based on the way your mental keyboard was laid out.

BTW, not that it's especially futuristic, but have been enjoying my DAS 
keyboard, and have discovered I guess I didn't really learn the whole 
keyboard as well as I thought I did.  For programming, seems I'm always 
hitting the small 'L' instead of the forward slash, and numbers in the 
middle (5 - 9) seem to throw me off more than they should.