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From: tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <880@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 18:29:04 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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There actually has been one system I have seen with an infra-red keyboard, it
is a Fujitsu machine available only in Japan called the FM-77A/V.  The A/V 
stands for Audio/Video as the machine has both excellant graphics and full
stereo sound.  It has the computer in a very small main unit which contains
two 3" floppys and an infra-red detector.  The keyboard is compeletely wireless
and uses infra-red.  The mouse, however, is still wired to the machine.  

There is a wireless tracking device scheduled for use on the new Philips CD-I
player systems that consists of a 10 key keypad, a thumb-ball tracking device 
and several trigger buttons for the tracking device.  This is suppossed to 
be infra-red.  I've seen the pictures but not the device itself.

Tim