My Crazy Ideas < Crazy
A couple years ago I was on a plane home from Columbus, OH trying to use my netbook. I had an Acer Aspire One, which has the weird mouse touchpad with keys on the sides rather than below. As a bigger guy, trying to use laptop touchpads in general on planes is tough, having to twist my wrist to manuver the cursor appropriately.
It was on that flight, that I had an idea for an input device that would be easy to use on a plane, and not require any wrist twisting, and would still allow for me to type easily. I drew out the concept, and threw it up on TwitPic (March 10, 2009): 
Oddly similar right?
I thought so too.
It’s actually kind of cool to see something I imagined created, even if it was by someone else. Whe I had the idea it seemed neat, but touchscreens were just getting popularized so I figured inputs like this would be short lived. I still feel that way.
I’ve had ideas like this since then too.
Like when the iPad was announced, I felt like it had one major flaw in peoples ability to hold it with one hand and type with the other. Unfortunately, I didn’t upload that drawing of my case concept to TwitPic, but looks what’s available today: http://store.apple.com/us/product/H2117ZM/A, the Griffin AirStrap.
I guess maybe next time I have a crazy idea I should follow through on it.