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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action ThePhantom Lapboard is one of those fabled legends of the gadget world, a keyboard and mouse that you can use comfortably on a couch—in the making since 2004.
The Phantom Keystroker has gotten an update, allowing you to make a victim’s computer randomly type garbage text, move the mouse or turn on caps lock. Hilarious?
Remember the Phantom Lapboard? Yeah, it’s been so long that we’ve heard any news of it (despite them telling us that it was finally released), that most people have plumb purged it from their memory. According to Phantom Entertainment’s recently updated blog though, the lapboard still exists and it’s coming by the end of the year – for real this time! The Phantom Entertainment folks have paid for their first shipment of manufactured lapboards, and they’ll be posting a delivery time frame soon. Good luck trying to generate buzz on your four-year-old almost-product, guys! [Phantom Entertainment]
We weren’t sure that this day would ever come. Even when we spoke with John Landino (Phantom Development Consultant) at CES, he wasn’t sure the day would ever come. Today, I got an email from him.
Will Smith over at Maximum PC just reviewed the Phantom Lapboard—that keyboard from the Phantom console guys which we first held for ourselves back at E3 2004. Surprise! They think the keyboard “rocks”. Their official position is that the pivoting scheme is comfortable and works great for righties and lefties. The only problem is their mouse. It sucks. Not only does it have signal dropouts, the left click button is “wimpy”. Probably not worth your US$130 until they can work out the mousing problems. [Maximum PC]
We got our hands on a final build of the promising lap-ready Phantom Lapboard Keyboard at CES, and what can we say? It appeared every bit as wireless and ambidextrous as we thought. But this is the apt-named Phantom Keyboard we’re talking about—the keyboard that Alienware wanted but couldn’t secure—the keyboard we’ve been looking at since 2004. We talked to the Phantom Development Consultant John Landino and he shed some light on the delays.
Phantom Entertainment has certainly got the name right; they provide an excellent source of entertainment based on phantom product releases. The most recent of such products is the long-time-coming Phantom Lapboard, which is apparently available for purchase now. The asking price is $US130, and it ships on…wait a minute…when does it ship?
WOOF! There is slow-mo, and then there is watching the ticks of Cesium-133 form the very definition of time. The Phantom Miro 3 shoots 1,000 frames per second at 800×600, or 2,200 at 512×512, OR >95,000 at 32×32. Video record isn’t quite so awesome, at a miserly 500fps. PAL or NTSC.
Shoots 8-, 10-, or 12-bit, at up to 1200 ISO colour or 4800 ISO mono. And controllable over Ethernet.
Isn’t science great? Expensive too. ‘Price on application’. That’s gonna cost ya.
Vision Research [via Tech Digest]
