Computers: technology.Your computer keyboard is probably a magnet for spilled soda, crumbs CRUMBS is an improvisational theatre duo based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The duo consists of two actors, Stephen Sim, and Lee White. Other members include videographers, musicians, photographers, webmasters, illustrators, producers, agents, publicists, graphic , dust, and other unsavory debris. Dump enough junk between the keys and the circuit board below--a "mini-computer" equipped with hundreds of pulsing electric circuit switches--will eventually bonk. Now such messes may soon be history, thanks to inventors at the Israeli company VKB VKB Virtual Keyboard VKB Vertical Knowledge Base . Their stroke of genius: a neon neon (nē`ŏn) [Gr.,=new], gaseous chemical element; symbol Ne; at. no. 10; at. wt. 20.179; m.p. −248.67°C;; b.p. −246.048°C;; density 0.8999 grams per liter at STP; valence 0. Neon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. red full-size virtual keyboard (1) A representation of a keyboard displayed on a touch screen. Tapping the "virtual keys" with a stylus or finger is the same as pressing a real key on a keyboard. (2) A representation of a keyboard projected onto a flat surface such as a desktop. that projects onto any flat surface. The device consists of a mini-projector that fires infrared laser beams (fast-moving energy waves) in the shape of a real keyboard, and a sensor that detects when the beams are broken by hand movement. The big advantage, says Klony Lieberman, vice president of research and development: The projector can be plugged into devices with tiny keyboards like cell phones and palm pilots. No more finger cramping cramping see cramp. or clumsy typos! The exact technology behind VKB's virtual keyboard is still hush-hush since the company has a patent pending. "All we can say is that we know where your hands are," Lieberman says. VKB hopes to market their invention early this year. |
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