Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 10:29:00 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vidar_Gr=F8nvold?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Why did Toshiba stop producing Libretto?

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:06:07 -0700, you wrote:
>Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 08:03:24 +0800
>From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [LIB] Why did Toshiba stop producing Libretto?


>Whilst I live in hope that Toshiba will release another tiny Libretto 
>because despite all this I still think there is a market for them, 
>realistically I don't seem them doing it until they develop a better way of 
>doing the user interface (perhaps it may take until they build a projection 
>keyboard into the laptop and have a touchscreen so you could still use it 
>if you didn't have a surface to project onto).

"projection keyboard"..well that gave me an idea..what about a
Libretto-type machine with an inbuilt projector..I mean, so you could
project the screen on a wall? That be a killer app. 

>Of course, I am still of the opinion that there should be more companies 
>producing alternative input devices such as chording keyboards (ya I know, 
>HandyKey still produce one but apart from that, to get one you really need 
>to build your own), and half-QWERTY keyboards (where only half the keyboard 
>exists, to get the other half you hold down the space bar and the missing 
>keys are mirrored across ... surprisingly easy to type on as your brain 
>rewires the keys of both hands onto 1 hand as long as you've been taught to 
>touchtype properly).

What about a keyboard that could be raised and folded out. Didn't IBM
make that for theire Thankpads?

-- 
regards
 Vidar Gr�nvold




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