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I have seen it and talked to the tester. He told me that you can't use it on a glass table, but it is interesting indeed. You need to get used to the unusual feeling - you don't feel nor hear the keys.

It's rather expensive. If it's useful for school I can't say, but might get a chance to test it.   

Cheers, Petra

Personally having seen these projected keyboards in action and compared them to the small portable fold out ones I'm yet to be convinced by the projected laser versions.

Firstly, what's the point?

if you're projecting a keyboard you need a flat space and more space in which to project than if you were using the pgysical fold out variety.

Second, as mentioned, you don't have the feel or travel of the keys. Feel and travel is not a design accident, quality designed keyboards design in travel to prevent R.S.I. and other such ailments.

A fold out keyboard is as small as a PDA and a lot thinner, the one I use is no bigger than a man's wallet and sits on my lap when I'm on a train.

The projected keyboards certainly have the bling bling wow factor but personally I don't think they are all that. It would be better to, rather than be a keyboard replacement, that they were a new type of input device like, for example, a wacom to get drawing of 3D scanning data into the handheld.

That's a bit pessimistic I think. I think it's a good step in the direction of finding new ways of input.