Natalie. This time I’m going to fall into the trap of taking your obviously humorous posting seriously.
The point is, it’s for portable computers. Although now still somewhat clunky, the new gismo will soon get very small and then be very easy to carry about in your pocket, probably soon as part of your portable. You try carrying a keyboard around with you on your travels, unless it’s a foldable one like mine.
Keyboards compatible with your portable computer are hard to find, but plain flat surfaces are pretty common, all around the world.
And as for non-portable computers, we must understand, Natalie, that not all people are like us. For some strange corporate beings, a computer keyboard is clutter, and one that can be switched off would be ultra-cool.
Next: VKB must do the same for the screen. Then, answering Natalie’s objection, they may want to supply the clear desk space for the keyboard and the screen for the screen themselves, so that the thing can sit on top of the festering pile of junk that is permanently between Natalie and the top of her desk, just like a regular portable computer or computer keyboard now.
The new standard portable computer is: four white (or whatever turns out to be the best colour for receiving projections) bricks, 12 inches by 3 inches by ¾ of an inch, joined at the long edges by three hinges. The outer two hinges enable the white bricks to flatten out and form the keyboard surface and the screen surface, while the central hinge is like the one hinge on a portable computer now. The keyboard is projected towards you from a little hole in the bottom brick of the screen. The screen is projected upwards from a little hole in the far brick of the keyboard surface (or maybe fownwards from a thingy that sticks out from the top of the screen, and doubles up as part of the case).
I’m glad that’s clear.
Note that different keyboards will be projectable at the press of a key, just as “different screens” are already presented to us all now, ditto, which is not possible with a hardware keyboard. I’m an inventor.
Richard Barber: thanks for this link, which is an improvement even on the one I finally got around to supplying. We weren’t inundated with link info, so far as I know, following my failure to include any in the rare first edition of my original posting. It is Sunday. You and I, Richard, are stuck at our old-style mechanical computer keyboards, making our peculiar lifestyle choices. Most people are out doing … what? Things, I suppose. Who knows what normal people get up to?
Meanwhile, as Richard says: “Ain’t capitalism grand?” It is indeed.
