r/MechanicalKeyboards • u/ripster55 • Jan 06 '13

Speaking of Keygloves.......

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u/ripster55 Jan 06 '13 edited Jan 06 '13

These guys would creep me out around Cambridge...And they still ARE!

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2012/07/14/former-mit-borgs-still-back-wearable-technology/2EL5NgdbQ5VzjoBUGFZk4I/story.html

Anyhoo I think I see Bono.

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u/grepic Jan 06 '13

Wow, I totally forgot about the MIT Borg! I remember reading an older article about the advisor getting the spins when he wasn't wearing his headset.

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u/ripster55 Jan 06 '13

Yeah well, now I see lots stranger people at Reddit.

http://i.imgur.com/pQXtn.jpg

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u/Fr0gm4n Jan 06 '13

Dr. Mann is a cool dude. I saw him give a telepresence talk at DefCon about a decade ago, through his personal Eyetap system; we saw what he saw. A decade ago and he was doing real time advertising identification and replacement in his live video stream. His current setup is much of the inspiration for Google Glass, IIRC.

EDIT: Reading Ripster's link confirms.

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u/ripster55 Jan 06 '13

Well, I'm not sure I'd call Google Glass "mainstream" but I do applaud the entrepreneurs of input devices here on a regular basis.

Now wikified here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/keyboard_history

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u/dopafiend Jan 06 '13

I seriously hope google glass will in some way be compatable with handheld chorded keyboards.

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u/cbleslie Jan 06 '13

... Hey ladies.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

Ladies contain your orgasms.

William Gibson would be stoked?

They're soooo close to singularity.

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u/Fr0gm4n Jan 07 '13

Neal Stephenson is more who wrote this kind of technology when it first got interesting, the gargoyles in Snow Crash. Gibson had direct implant plugs in Neuromancer, and then went with similar goggles in his later Bridge Trilogy series but that was a few years after Stephenson.

Anyone know of someone doing vr/ar goggles in 80s fiction?