It wouldn't surprise me that someone would replace a keyboard with a constraption like that. Why on earth would 5 generations of people trained to type, want to take 25 minutes to type a sentence when you could do it in 25 seconds the old fashioned way. Sometimes all you have to do to convince folks that your idea is a better one is to jack the price up and make it glitzy. Like Michelob beer. Just plain Budweiser has always been tough to beat.