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I emailed Steve Jobs right after he came back to Apple and suggested they make a carry-able computer that could project the interface and keyboard input to any
by smm11 1y ago
I emailed Steve Jobs right after he came back to Apple and suggested they make a carry-able computer that could project the interface and keyboard input to any glass surface.
- mattl 1y agoDid you get a reply?
- edm0nd 1y agoand? did he reply?
- smm11 1y agoYes, "thanks," from NeXTmail.
- kccqzy 1y agoIn 2010 I emailed Steve Jobs about an idea for improving iWork 09. I forgot what it was. No reply ever.
- p_ing 1y agoI'm not sure how a glass surface would work given how lasers interact with glass. But this style of keyboard has been done in various forms as far back as '92. They're awful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard
- sgerenser 1y agoAt that point, Steve was just starting to kill all the “moonshots” and “cool tech but who is really going to buy it” products like the Newton and OpenDoc. Even if he read the email, there’s no way he’d be interested in something like that at the time.