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Lilwolf:

Forget about having a wireless keyboard sitting near...

instead, work this into your machine..  Imaging a clean black control panel with a few joysticks and a few buttons... And a button for config... press it and this turns on.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/



Cutty:

Yeah those things are really cool, but I guess theyre hard to use because there's no feedback, you HAVE to type by looking right at the keyboard. Also, I can't justify spending that much on a keyboard that I plan on not needing. However, it would definitely add to the wow factor, which is half the reason anybody builds their cab.

dpz147:

That is really cool!  The only catch is that you need to pay $179.99 for a keyboard.  :banghead:

KillerArcades:

yeah, I saw that recently and had the exact same thought. :D awesome idea, but they need to get it under $75 for me to get more interested... Plus, I'd have to figure out what type of "flat" surface I could display it on that wouldn't be as hard as wood and make the ends of my fingers get all black and blue (I've been told when speaking on the phone to some friends and typing at the same time that my typing sounds like machine gun fire....:(..)

lharles:

I read somewhere, (forgive me for not being able to recall the specifics), that the functionality of this was a bit dicey.

Specifically, there were issues with recognition of keystrokes, not being terribly tolerant of variations in the surfaces it could be used on and so forth.

Since I'm not a 'hunt and peck' type of typist, (which is apparently how it works best), I don't know how functional it would be for me.

On a MAME setup, I imagine it would probably be a fantastic solution.  :)

A quick google search, ("laser keyboard review"), turns up a wide group of varying reviews...some good, some bad.  I don't know if I'd pull the trigger on this thing at that cost...  :)

Just some random rambling, but somewhat related to the topic...  :)



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