07-24-2004, 01:00 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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Shocker: Virtual Keyboard NOT Going to be Made!
Coming as a surprise to virtually no one, iBiz has given up on their virtual keyboard "in its current form". But wait! Not content to let their virtual keyboard escape back into the vapor from whence it came, iBiz has signed an agreement with another company, called, and I am dead serious: Virtual Devices Inc. You may visit their site, but be warned - looking at their homepage wallpaper may lead to blindness or some sort of seizure.
Quality of the website aside, I am greatly comforted by the fact that their latest press release is from May of 2002, and that the PDA in the photo on their front page is a cutting edge Handspring Visor. But why should we trust Virtual Devices? In their own words (emphasis theirs): "VDI has the patent on this technology, giving us a sustainable competitive advantage," and even better: "VDI has a functioning prototype that demonstrates the concept." Somehow, I think there might be some argument over that whole patent thing. 
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07-24-2004, 01:04 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,468
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Be fair now - this new virtual keyboard is completely different. The old one was red - this one is green.
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07-24-2004, 01:09 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5,616
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Re: Shocker: Virtual Keyboard NOT Going to be Made!
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Originally Posted by Pat Logsdon
be warned - looking at their homepage wallpaper may lead to blindness or some sort of seizure.
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I saw carpeting like that once, and I've had an inner-ear disorder ever since.
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07-24-2004, 01:19 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,133
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8O Ouch!
I wonder if using their products will be as fun as looking at their website. :silly:
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07-24-2004, 01:54 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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Somebody, fire their webmaster. Fast!
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07-24-2004, 01:59 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 597
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Re: Shocker: Virtual Keyboard NOT Going to be Made!
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Originally Posted by ctmagnus
I saw carpeting like that once, and I've had an inner-ear disorder ever since.
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07-24-2004, 01:59 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,329
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Hmm must be the next generation Visor. Not only does it have the virtual keyboard built in it also has a built in gravitational distortion field to keep that PDA upright. Very impressive. :wink:
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07-24-2004, 02:00 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 597
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Originally Posted by Jonathan1
Hmm must be the next generation Visor. Not only does it have the virtual keyboard built in it also has a built in gravitational distortion field to keep that PDA upright. Very impressive. :wink:
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that and it can beam the keyboard right to the desk. must be a special LED on there... :robot:
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07-24-2004, 02:09 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 132
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All your comments are hilarious! :rotfl:
The movie demo is just as bad as the website itself. The computer (not PDA) that they use looks like is runs on MS-DOS, :roll:
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07-24-2004, 03:41 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 103
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According to the dictionary:
virtual = "being such in essence or effect though not in actual fact"
so "Virtual Devices Inc." implies that they make or sell vaporware... must be expensive?
and if they never deliver their product, will they have in fact delivered their product?
Can they also make virtual weapons of mass destruction? The Republican Party may be interested. :wink:
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