http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/wafer-thin-lapt.php

Without Tactile or Haptic feedback, this thing wont work well.

We longed for the feel of real keyboard, and haptic feedback does offer some of that realistic keyboard feel.

Because that requires landing your fingers initially -- were you typing "fjdkls;a", or just getting into position? Also, hitting a solid surface will KILL your fingers with a FEW impacts.

Nope, hunt-and-peck is the future. The number of words used will reduce until selectable from short lists... and it will be doubleplusUNgood.

@Mil

I'm with you on this one.
fashion struck against reason when laptop mouse-pads became flush fitted instead of sunken with distinct borders. my pointer frequently 'teleports' to elsewhere on the screen - bring back the old style one that goes EXACTLY where you want it to, nothing more, nothing less.

its nothing short of shoddy

If your left pinky twitches up, that could be a q, twitches down a z, simply makes a stabbing motion would be an a. Just do similar motions to a keyboard and have a way of detecting what the hand is doing. The first few prototypes would be guaranteed to suck, but I think long-term it's a good idea. Of course, it would have to be a head-mounted display, but that'll arrive at some point.

IMHO, this is silly at best. People who type fast and were taught to type fast and good know the basics:

1. Index fingers TOUCH the F and J (thats why you have those bumps on them so you can find them without looking)
2. Thumbs on space
3. Other fingers TOUCH A-F and J-;

This is a basic position from which you can easily reach all other keys with minimum effort and high precision. If you have touch sensitive keyboard you have to keep your fingers well abouve the surface with no tactile clues about the whereabous of the fingers.

Silly. Useless. Fashionable. I am sure it will sell well. Still useless.