Tech Eye: You want to touch?

Despite a number of bonds swearing we will keep the peace, we like a bit of touch and feel. Whether it be the rough steel bit between our teeth that Father insists we wear when ploughing the field of a winter's morn (horses, he tells us, are for lightweights) or the comforting embrace of the leather Mother would bind us with before her gin-soaked sojourns to the local Bingo hall of a Saturday evening, we like a bit of tactility in our lives.

However, we're not without our problems, and invisible things have always presented us with various stumbling blocks of legal proportions. As a young urchin, our invisible friend Claude forever had his hand in the cookie jar/charity box in the local church and then blamed it on us (and we're as innocent as OJ).

So it was with some trepidation that we approached this week's gizmo. ITech's Bluetooth virtual keyboard is a small block of witchcraft that projects a full-size infrared keyboard onto any flat surface. You then type on the image as with a normal keyboard and, thanks to dark forces beyond our comprehension, they appear on your screen. Much like the time we saw the advert for a local knocking shop, we're not sure if the illusion will live up to the reality. A single charge will last two hours, unlike our single charge on the Saturday night after aforementioned vision.

Apparently, the invisible keyboard was created by Israeli military engineers and, let's face it, when have they ever produced something that hasn't benefited mankind? To get one and amaze people on airplanes, and really annoy them with the clicking noise it makes, expect to part with about zł.599.

LM