The Virtual Keyboard:


It even makes (customizable) typing sounds as you pound on an empty surface . . . see Youtube clip for more.

This is possibly the coolest piece of furniture I have ever seen:
(It would probably be most effective if, when confronting your would-be assailant with this, you also screamed "This Is SPARTA!!!!!")

The Hollywood hacks referenced below should make a film of the life of Randy Pausch--but the farewell video lecture he has given, only a few months now before his inevitable death of cancer at age 46, is better than anything they would be likely to come up with.

• Chronicle article with video link
• abcnews.com story with video links

Rejoice, for we are not bound forever to the circles of this world, and beyond them is more than memory.       --Aragorn

Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.    --Dr. George Ritchie