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# fucking hell
i would. he's beautiful

any geeks in today? projection keyboards, anyone?
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 10:46, archived)
# Yeah
saw that on Slashdot. Marvelous idea, plus you can't damage them by falling asleep and dribbling.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 10:46, archived)
# And you don't get
all thank mank under your eyes. Cracking idea if you ask me.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 10:50, archived)
# Nice
I saw a system at Xerox EuroPARC about 10 years ago that projected the whole computer display onto your desktop and then used video cameras to watch the desk so you could take a real picture/letter etc straight into the computer just by putting it on your desk.

It was fab - one of their demos was doing a drawing on paper with a pen and having it wrap that drawing around a 3D model of a vase as you drew.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 10:52, archived)
# And no doubt Xerox did their usual thing
and ignored it completely. Like they did when they invented desktop computing.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 10:57, archived)
# Absolutely
the whole project got shelved as soon as it started looking really interesting and the people involved left.

The only reason they seemed interested in it was because it involved real paper rather than all the funky things it let you do.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 10:59, archived)
# i've played with one
was very good indeed. I also played with the projector touch screeny things that cthonic mentions below - muchly fun :) There are some good things about working for ze germanz !
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 11:00, archived)