Phantom Lapboard May Actually Ship

notthatwillsmith writes "Despite never actually releasing the Phantom console, it looks like Phantom Entertainment (the company formerly known as Infinium Labs) may actually ship its sofa-friendly mouse/keyboard combo controller, the Lapboard, sometime this decade. The Lapboard is currently scheduled for a mid-June release at a price of $130, with the included laser mouse." We've been mulling over the much delayed Phantom console for years.

Manditory

[neokushan]

Rumour has it it's perfect for playing Duke Nukem Forever with.

No numpad?!

[MagdJTK]

And I had such high hopes for playing NetHack on my 40'' HDTV!

And before you tell me to change my settings... erm... I do a lot of kicking?

In other news...

[Plazmid]

In other news, Hell freezes over, scientist builds a working perpetual motion machine, an electron's position and velocity are revealed at the same time, and a mathematician finally proves you can divide by zero.

Re:Manditory

[christurkel]

The GNU Hurd port of Duke Nukem.

Re:Manditory

[morgan_greywolf]

With game files saved on the Samba 4 server.

Re:Two things

[tomhudson]

You can make one yourself with a regular keyboard, a pop rivet, and a piece of hard polyboard.

1. Cut board to shape
2. Drill hole in center
3. Remove back of standard wireless keyboard
4. Drill hole in center of back that you removed in step 3
5. Pop-rivet board to back of keyboard
6. Screw back of keyboard back on
7. Put an Alienware logo on it and then photoshop it to remove the logo in some of the pics, to create some buzz.
8. Slashvertize it.

... and after all those steps, STILL NO PROFIT!!!

Re:Found in article at end...

[couchslug]

Smoke and mirrors would be worth more than their stock!

http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/phei [marketwatch.com]

Re:Manditory

[RiotingPacifist]

Running under wine 1.0.... o wait :(

Re:Two things

[Provocateur]

The person in the photo is not a person. He comes with the keyboard, and is part of the technical spec. Cyberdyne systems model T-099. You know the one: they look human - sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. He started out as a baby when we gave him the prototype...

Practicing on FPS's even as we speak. When we find the right language to persuade him to let go of the prototype, then we'll ship, I swear.

Re:Manditory

[darkpixel2k]

Running under wine 1.0.... o wait :(

...running under Linux on the year it takes the desktop.

Re:Manditory

[Yvan256]

... via Web 2.0

Re:$130?

[BigBuckHunter]

I recommend you cut a hole in the bottom lap portion, so you'll still have "access".

BBH

Re:Manditory

[ToasterofDOOM]

Synergistically.