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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:01pm on 19/09/2003
Much as I admire the flexibility of being able to use a wireless Bluetooth mouse and keyboard with a computer... why would you want to do so 30 feet away from it?

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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 12:36pm on 19/09/2003
My brother regularly uses his 43-inch TV as his computer monitor, and sits 10-15 feet back using his wireless keyboard and mouse. 30' seems a little high even for him, though.
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posted by [identity profile] darktouch.livejournal.com at 01:52pm on 19/09/2003
Its actually paving the way for wireless flatscreen technology. I personally like the idea of screen glasses but it's going to be the wireless flatscreen that you can sit with 30 feet away from the cpu.

More seriously though, at work we have a smartboard projector set up. The keyboard barely works 3 feet away from the CPU.. being able to move the keyboard 30 feet away would be a huge benefit.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 08:08am on 20/09/2003
That makes more sense. But it would have to be a big flatscreen, more like the flatscreen tvs of today than the LCD displays in current use - unless somehow enough demand brough the high price of making flatscreens down further.

If you only have a 3 foot range, then of course it would be good to have more - but you'd probably find 15 feet good enough for most purposes. Still, better to overcompensate, I guess, than provide too little distance!
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posted by [identity profile] crustycurmudgeo.livejournal.com at 05:27pm on 19/09/2003
Ooh! I was wondering about those. 30 feet? Neat!

I'm building a home entertainment/multimedia PC to replace the stereo, casette player, cd player, dvd player and VCR. It'll be on the household LAN with access to my file server, webserver, email server and of course the internet.

I think a 30' range keyboard and mouse would be perfect. World's most complicated remote control. :)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 01:27pm on 21/09/2003
Bluetooth is good for being able to toggle between different equiptment and would be fabulous as the ultimate remote control! What a nifty setup that'll be when it's complete.
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posted by [identity profile] jayasankarvs.livejournal.com at 09:05pm on 19/09/2003
Wonder when they will come out with totally computerless keyboards.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 08:12am on 20/09/2003
It's possible to buy non-physical keyboards already. Here's the article I read on the subject last year.

It also depends on how you'd like to be able to input data. Voice recognition technology has greatly improved, but it's not fabulous. Still, most of the main commercial OS today come with handicap accessibility that allow the user to control many of the computer's functions with spoken commands.
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