Back home at last, and waiting for me was something I’d hoped to have with me in Calgary: a Stowaway Bluetooth folding keyboard for my Audiovox Harrier.
This is just amazingly cool. It’s a full-size keyboard (minus the row of number buttons) with a good solid feel and a nice brace that makes it stiff enough to hold on my lap as I type. It’s also got a little easel thing on which I can rest the Harrier. The result: an ultra-small writing device, far easire to carry around than a laptop. I can type almost as fast on this as on a laptop, too, and certainly a heck of a lot faster than I can on the virtual keyboard (or even, heaven forbid, on the slide-out thumb-sized keyboard) of the Harrier.
Had I had this at Westercon, my posts from there would have been even longer and more detailed, since I could easily have taken extensive notes of panels. The keyboard is quiet, too, so it shouldn’t even be a distraction when sitting in on talks and other events.
And man, oh, man, don’t I wish I’d had one of these when I was a reporter? When I think of all the newsprint pads that gave their lives to my barely legible scrawls…
I’m in geek heaven, here. (Although it’s cleverly disguised as the Cornwall Centre Second Cup.)
