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depletedvespene wrote: ↑You missed a chance, right before the typing demo, of saying instead of "Do not try this at home.", "Do not try this at home, or at the office, or anywhere else for that matter."

depletedvespene wrote: ↑Great review!

There is one aspect of these "keyboards" that you didn't dwell on — one that I immediately spotted back in 2004 (along with the serious defect of having to type on wood or glass), when they started selling them, marketed as "the future of typing".

The units back then (... and I would assume that now as well — I don't care to research the modern models) came with just the one layout to project. Why? It would have been trivial to include several national layouts, user selectable, to be projected within the exact same grid, or even to have different layers, akin to what users of <=60% keyboards are familiar with.

Heck, with a bit of more effort, those projectors could have been reprogrammable, to allow the user to define entirely new layouts, whether within the same basic preprogrammed grid (or grids) or some entirely user-defined one (how about hexagonal "keys" instead of square? Or larger squares for guys with thicker fingers, like mine?).

Chyros wrote: ↑Doesn't really matter what layout you program into it tbh, none of them will work anyway .

DustGod wrote: ↑Nobody's asked yet, so I'm gonna: Chyros, I hope you kept faith to your habit and used only this keyboard for a full week prior to the review. Did you?

Chyros wrote: ↑

DustGod wrote: ↑Nobody's asked yet, so I'm gonna: Chyros, I hope you kept faith to your habit and used only this keyboard for a full week prior to the review. Did you?

I was hoping no-one would ask that :p .

I tried it for two afternoons, then I was so sick of it that I ragequit xD .