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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jul 18th at 4:11am 2005

Optimus is the best keyboard ever. And it's such a brilliant idea. While only a prototype now, hopefully will get released soon. They said it will be approximately 200-300 USD.

Man, that's sweet!






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Posted by wil5on on Mon Jul 18th at 4:18am 2005

Whoa. Awesome.


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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jul 18th at 4:20am 2005

Am I seeing this correctly? It displays the hotkeys of any given program you are using ATM?

That would be unique to say the least..





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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Mon Jul 18th at 4:23am 2005

I have to get this, this is awsome. Imagine it's many uses with hammer...

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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jul 18th at 4:26am 2005

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, by looking at the photoshop setup. You have your texture application button, entity button, geez all kinds of crap. If this goes on the market I will have to guilt my dad into getting me one.




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Posted by Senshi on Mon Jul 18th at 4:38am 2005

OMG, that is the best idea ever
I really want one, i'm gonna have to start saving some cash for when they release that baby on the market.



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Posted by Agent Smith on Mon Jul 18th at 4:44am 2005

It would be even cooller if they could incorporate a screensaver for the keyboard, so they could all work at once to display changing images and patterns. Very cool.



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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Jul 18th at 5:01am 2005

I can't wait 'til some 14-year-old makes a virus that changes every key to display any of 1 million random gay porn images. Plus, the bastards will probably charge you a monthly subsriction fee: everyone else is nowadays. that or they will want to install a sweet program that stays in the corner of your screen by the clock and takes up 256 MB of RAM. (like steam)

other than that it would be nice to be able to spell out curse words on other ppl's keyboards somehow.




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Posted by DrGlass on Mon Jul 18th at 5:04am 2005

Open source too, think of the cool games just the keyboard could support. Like memory or word serch.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Jul 18th at 5:10am 2005

? quoting DrGlass
Open source too, think of the cool games just the keyboard could support. Like memory or word serch.

YOU'RE A GENIUS!! Just think, my computer will FINALLY have the great games i enjoy from my cell phone!! Maybe someday, I'll be able to send text messages across the country. But I would want to have a keypad to spell it out painstakingly like on my Nokia.

For programmers, you could have it display the Hex or Binary instead of the letter, i dunno HOW that'd help, but it may.

I personally just want a frickin' LCD monitor.




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Posted by Windows 98 on Mon Jul 18th at 5:13am 2005

too bad iheard about the keyboard like 2-3 weeks ago. it was posted on the myg0t forums a long time ago. its just a concept so i didnt post it. i thought about posting it though :-/



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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jul 18th at 7:58am 2005

? quoting Dark_Kilauea
Imagine it's many uses with hammer...


Oh yeah showing us our ignorance, everyone will be saying... "WTF? WHAT DOES THAT KEY DO?" and "DAMMMMMIT, I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THAT"





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Posted by Crapceeper on Mon Jul 18th at 8:09am 2005

I might be wrong but I think this keyboard won't actually 'scan' applications for hotkeys but the user needs to set up all the hotkeys for the application. And for this the user needs to know the hotkeys. It certainly will come with pre-defined hotkeys for major programmes - but for hammer? I shrug my shoulders on that.


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Posted by Andrei on Mon Jul 18th at 9:41am 2005

Looks cool. Lazy people (like me, of course) will love it <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">.




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Posted by Dred_furst on Mon Jul 18th at 12:05pm 2005

I can see some great implementations with steam coming up if it operates in the fashion im thinking of, if it changes for each active application, that would be awesome, just thing, you can start steam, load half life and connect to the server of your choice by hitting 3-4 buttons <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> then theres in-game! you could have stuff for custom plugins and things, like slap and such

and hammer! god that would be awesome, Gimmie an light_spot please! *Ping!* There we go! lets put that over there!

and the photoshop layout looks good,

ooh, bets on someone modding the software so it uses it as a display >.>

that and the possibilities with winamp, that would be awesome :P pass the VIS to the keyboard to look cool <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">



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Posted by Natus on Mon Jul 18th at 12:29pm 2005

pure awesomeness, i gotta get myself oe of these <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">



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Posted by SaintGreg on Mon Jul 18th at 1:03pm 2005

Thats really cool, but if it really is 200 dollars, thats a bit excessive as a replacement for a 5 dollar piece of equipment.



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Posted by Andrei on Mon Jul 18th at 1:34pm 2005

200$ ? You'd have to be a fool to give 200$ just to save 2 mouse clicks IMHO. A fool or beyond lazy.




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Posted by satchmo on Mon Jul 18th at 3:46pm 2005

For me at least, the tactile feeling of the keys is the most important aspect for a keyboard. I am very picky about the feel of the keys. Once, I bought seven keyboards at the same time so I can test them out properly (before returning six of them later).

I memorized the keys already, so I really have no need for the keyboard to remind me of which key does what. Besides, I am a touch-typist, so I never look at the keyboard anyway.

It's a smart concept though. But the ultimate keyboard would be a thin touch-sensitive pad that you can fold up to the size of a pea and carry it wherever you go.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jul 18th at 4:08pm 2005

They have one like that. It's just the rubber pad found inside the keyboard, with the letters/numbers/etc. on it, and you can roll it up and take it anywhere.





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