- Phys.Org, Thursday, November 6, 2014 2:12 PM
Chris Mason thinks of Brookstone stores as the retail version of canaries in the coal mine - harbingers of change in the air. And this year, the chain is all over the smartphone as a
weight-bearing pillar of American life. A Brookstone store in a Pittsburgh-area shopping mall recently was showing off a $119.99 device that uses laser technology to project a virtual
keyboard onto a flat surface to allow typing on an attached smartphone or tablet.
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