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Hyper cyber virtual laser keyboard

I've been hearing about these for a while now but it looks like they're actually on the way to stores. The Virtual Laser Keyboard projects an image of a keyboard on any surface and then watches where your fingers tap.

It's made for PDAs and laptops, and a cell phone version is coming at the end of the year. It looks like it'll cost $100, a surprisingly low price point for something like this. We'll see how well it works without tactile feedback though. The reason touchscreen remote controls are teh suck is because your fingers can't feel their way around a smooth surface. The VLK could suffer the same fate.