| Invention Idea | Thursday | 2004.07.15 Computers & Technology |
What the world needs is a new kind of KVM. It actually wouldn't be a KVM per se (the device I envision doesn't handle the video), but not many people would know what I was talking about if I said we need a new KM device.
Manufacturers and other developers of ideas, feel free to take this idea, just be kind and give me a few of the devices and a few hundred/thousand dollars in return. Yeah, I'm that cheap.
Now that I have a notebook, I'm interested in using my fancy-pants Kinesis keyboard with it. What would be dreamy is if there were a device designed to share a USB keyboard and mouse between a desktop and a bluetooth enabled laptop. Although I just entered, I know this market has to be big. Think of all the people with a laptop and desktop, who don't want to type on the laptop's built-in keyboard when it's sitting on the desk next to their 'real' keyboard! It's not even like the market is restricted to users who own laptops with integragted bluetooth - there are a bazillion USB bluetooth fobs on the market. Anyhow, back to my idea.
The device would have the normal spots to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse. There would be just one wire coming out of it, though. That would be a USB cable that plugs into the stationary desktop computer. Power and is supplied to our mythical device through the USB cable, which also connects the keyboard and mouse to the desktop. As you probably have guessed by now, the keyboard/mouse connection for the laptop is accomplished wirelessly through bluetooth!
If I had some capital and access to some energetic young engineers, I could get very rich! C'mon, somebody develop this! I want one!
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