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piezo-electric computer keyboard
wireless, uses tapping energy
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Pretty much in the title... a wireless keyboard which gets it's transmitting energy from keys made out of (or at least connected to) piezo-electric crystals... picked up by a normal wireless receiver on the computer

Maybe even a differently tuned crystal for each key (if such a thing is possible), picked up by a not-so-normal wireless receiver on the computer.


FlyingToaster, Dec 16 2007



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       So, if you were programming, you'd get more energy from using a strongly-typed language such as Java.

Ian Tindale, Dec 16 2007
  

       <GROAN>

8th of 7, Dec 16 2007
  

       //...you'd get more energy from using a strongly-typed language...//   

       ... or the fontsize could change depending on the strength of the signal... the ability to "yell" over the internet without using caps, or mumble incoherently.

FlyingToaster, Dec 16 2007
  

       yes. Build this and market it, then email me. good job

evilpenguin, Dec 16 2007
  

       Keyboards without much travel tend to be really hard on people's hands.

wiml, Dec 17 2007
  

       Seems very bakeable to me. Perhaps a little pricey.

Laimak, Dec 17 2007
  

       No more so than some hopped-up Microsoft shitpile, with side skirts and a freakin' great pram-handle on the back.

UnaBubba, Dec 17 2007
  

       I don't know the equations (/wireless requirements) behind this one - can enough energy be generated to send a reliable signal from keyboard to receiver?

boysparks, Dec 17 2007
  


 
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