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An Eraser Shaped Like A Delete Key - Designed by Art Lebedev

artlebedev.com — The palm-size Tersumus eraser is shaped like the well-known key on a computer keyboard.

Who dugg this? Made popular Feb 18, 2007

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  • KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+325Whats next, a condom version of the Ins key?
  • otatop, on 10/12/2007, -11/+225So...we should expect a smaller version of this within a year, and then the full size original for about $1200 in two or three?
  • malfourmed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+144On my keyboard this looks more like the backspace key. The delete key is normal sized.
  • chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -4/+71on Macs I think its called delete instead of backspace

    anywho
    great idea

    too bad it costs $8.80USD
    (yes I'm cheap)
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39You could carve and print your own for $10.50? Why not just buy one then?
  • BrutusCirrus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31I like the subtle, "Print "Hello World.jpg"
  • CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23@chingy1788

    Yeah, for something that you're eventually going to use up or lose, I think I'd rather just spent 99¢.
  • idean360, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25***** $10.50 for ONE of them? ***** that...I could carve and print my own for that price.
  • Wuffles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20@R313453

    Probably because you directed an insult-esque comment at the above poster for absolutely no reason.

    That, or nobody cares. :)
  • awol21, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27don't get too excited, it's just an eraser/deleter...
  • Batiu-Drami, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20My delete key is that size but vertical, not horizontal.
  • heavyd14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Actually, its just a hello world program. No .jpg
    What you are thinking of is Hello.jpg
    For those who don't know, hello.jpg is the file name of the goatse picture
    If you don't know what goatse is, you don't want to. If you still want to, I would send you to wikipedia.
  • TheSkinsFactory, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Am i the only person wondering why it took two designers to design this?
  • Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14It's awesome, but I'm not paying 7.40€ for a freakin eraser just beacuse there's "delete" on it.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12***** that, just hurry up with that Optimus Keyboard.
  • hass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+81800 diggs?? must be a slow news day
  • robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Haha. Idiots on digg will buy anything from this guy.
  • SueprSheepdog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Everybody wants to know what goatse is ;)
  • Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Bacause it SHOULD be cheaper to buy a serially manufactured product than make it by hand with materials available in stores. That's why we buy stuff made by underpaid work-slaves in big factories in some remote place in Asia and not make them ourselves.
  • Foamator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9On my keyboard, that's the shape of the backspace key, whereas the Del key is normal sized, like some other people said.
  • Sanitarium, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12I'm sure I have seen that in a store before. I couldn't be that hard to make an eraser that says that.

    I would prefare a "right click button" shaped errrm, something. So it can highlight certain text and copy and paste it.
  • rk_cr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Only Art Lebedev studios takes half a year to manufacture an eraser.
  • Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Not much of one, you just have to be bored.
  • simonwalton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Probably about the same as the level required to bitch about it on digg? Seriously, what's the problem with being a nerd if it's what you love?
  • fluoro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The release date says 26-01-2007.. but it's still only available for preorder?
  • Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4All comments aside, I betcha this guy makes a hefty sack of money from this idea.

    And everyone else is sitting there thinking "I wish I'd thought of that."
  • MotionAesthetic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ R313453

    Actually he just meant 'normal' as in 'the same size as most of the other keys on the keyboard'.

    The eraser is roughly the width of two 'normal' sized keys.
  • MeekoTheRaccoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+71969 called, they want their programming language back.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/superbitus/
    I like this one
  • Rekzai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Im gonna buy this and give it to my computer engineer teacher lol
  • memoBug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is cute, but I can't recall the last time I actually needed a rubber eraser. Now if it were a WHITEBOARD eraser, that would be useful!
  • imdwalrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I want a Das Keyboard version.
  • dimension89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3WTF??
  • apzdsx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Many things.
  • OrangeyTang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This isn't a new item. Erasers like this have been available for years in the UK. You just need to look in any good Stationary shop (of course it's stationary, would be very difficult to get into the shop if it was moving). to find them.

    If they are selling for $8+ then it looks like I'll be getting a few and ebaying them, they only cost something like 50p here in the UK. may be not the same size as that (what is palm sized any way, is that a baby palm, small person palm, a big I'v the span of my desk, sized palm).
  • Crispae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1actually it took

    Cast:
    art director: Artemy Lebedev
    designers: Daniil Rassadin, Alexander Malinovsky
    industrial designer: Timur Burbayev
    modeller: Alexey Zalata
    manager: Tatyana Savintseva

    to make this apparently :). It makes me wonder how there can be unemployment when it takes 6 peeps to design an eraser...
  • bennybertow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That would be an interesting study to do... Why do people not listen if people tell them "You do not want to know!"? If you placed a link and wrote all over it "Do not click! You do not want to see it! Believe me!" - then how many people would still click it, and how many would not?

    To make it not-so-offtopic: I would like an eraser for certain images burned into the brain...
  • whiteyMcBrown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Everyone complaining is an idiot. It's clever. If you don't wanna buy one, don't.
  • xjqcf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, at least the illustration has the right idea: erase that ugly Basic. Probably going to recode it as a J2EE enterprise application.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you wanted to make a simple PRINT program, you would have to be a really ignornat pompous prick to use j2EE over BASIC.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow your cool aren't ya.
  • joeTaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@broomett: Chill out dude. Does it really matter what language you code an infinite loop in?
  • SaII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2so creative!!
  • MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where's the keyboard-shaped writing utensil?
  • xevidentx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5what a waste of $10
  • Slipknotic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Qbasic!
  • cowpoodle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Uh. I made one in five minutes with an eraser, a razor blade and a pen. It's that easy. Do it yourself guys and stop whining about the price.
  • impedance101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or a female condom version of the home key
  • MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too bad it costs more than the amount of change shown in the picture. What are the chances that you're even going to say $20 worth of change in there before you smash it?
  • Firehed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, for some reason or another, 'enter' and 'return' aren't functionally identical on Macs. Which has become a source of great annoyance to me whenever I use the number-pad on my Mac keyboard and its 'enter' key does absolutely nothing (requiring me to reach over to the 'return' key). As nice as the keyboard otherwise is (considering that it still is, after all, a keyboard), that's just some idiotic thing that's nothing other than a source of great annoyance, like also having the 'clear' key in the number-pad section and shifting the top and right outermost keys clockwise by one position from the worldwide-standard keyboard equivalent.

    Anyways, just thought I should point that out. I've yet to figure out what the 'enter' key is actually for, other than irritating me.
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