Pressure Sensitive Keyboard

Microsoft Hardware has created a pressure sensitive keyboard. The creators are now opening up a student competition to see what innovative uses the students can come up with for this new keyboard.

The video demonstrates that applications:
-- Video games (the harder the key is pressed the faster you move)
-- Instant messaging (the harder the key is pressed the larger the font conveying emotion)
-- Word processor editing (the harder the key is pressed the more likely that was the correct letter the user meant)
--Intuitive deletion (the harder the backspace key is pressed the more of the word/paragraph is deleted)

This is a great invention that will eventually provide greater feedback mechanisms to the user and make the interaction of the human-computer interface more seamless. In fact, I'm surprised it has taken this long to invent a keyboard that is touch sensitive. But I suppose all truly great inventions are like that: they just naturally flow from the technological devices that already exist and become seamless with existing technology.