I'm in love

[Jake Schwartz]

(01-31-2024 09:01 PM)John Garza (3665) Wrote:  I once had a dream...

I was using a new HP calculator.
It still had mechanical keys for tactile feedback, but the keyboard faceplate was a display with holes in it for the keys, and could show different labeling for functions/programs the user wanted. Press a shift key and they all changed.
Sort of the ultimate overlay system.

-J

This was exactly what Tim Wessman presented at the HHC2005 conference in Chicago....the entire calc surface, including the location of the normal display would be e-ink. (In the PPC Archive, go to Section 4, select HHC2005 toward the bottom and check pages 14 through 25 of the proceedings.)

I suspect that we would all love this arrangement :-)

Thanks,
Jake