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- thebellmaster1x, on 01/23/2008, -3/+170Oh, pleeeeease be less than a bajillion dollars.
- TheFiestyFaun, on 01/23/2008, -2/+58Although this one's a little more in my price range, the optimus is waaaaaaayy cooler.
- Y3T1, on 01/23/2008, -4/+58I dont even look at the keyboard while I type, I don't get the big deal is with these, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I cant justify spending 400$+ (or w/e it is) on a keyboard I'll rarely look at when its meant to be looked at :/
- seldon452, on 01/23/2008, -13/+64Sweet! A $10000 keyboard for my $500 computer. I half expect it to be an apple product.
- zaxnyd, on 01/23/2008, -0/+31Any "gamer" who has to look at their keyboard fails.
- mikesbaker, on 01/23/2008, -2/+24F Keys being OLED != to the entire keyboard
- inactive, on 01/23/2008, -0/+22you stole that comment from Engadget
- Xerces, on 01/23/2008, -7/+27Talk about ugly
- manitoba98xp, on 01/23/2008, -0/+12True, but most people who use those applications for a living (which is the only way that amount is justifiable) tend to memorize those shortcuts pretty quickly, anyways. It's a solution looking for a problem, really.
- eplawless, on 01/23/2008, -0/+12and with the press of a button, they'll have a Russian keyboard and will start berating you in Russian.
- bejayel, on 01/23/2008, -1/+12I would like being able to switch between dvorak / qwerty and cooler images for my games. Its nicer looking at a grenade picture than a number 4 all the time.
- Microdot, on 01/23/2008, -0/+11yep. thats the only downside to arts idea. the optimus is actually a damn cool keyboard... but $1500 is just obscene. and this is coming from someone who spends what others consider insane amounts for keyboards/mice. i want the best in both quality and comfort as the faster and more productive i am, the more i make. so i'll spend $200-300. but $1500 is just stupid. (on a side note, whatever happened to the optimus being "the cost of an average smart phone"?) if united keys can hit the $300 target, i will buy immediately.
- wellyuk, on 01/23/2008, -0/+11And if you want to go the completely opposite direction:
http://www.daskeyboard.com/ - blazes816, on 01/23/2008, -3/+13Maybe if they wouldn't have bragged about it for years without releasing anything they would have had a jump on he market.
- tendonut, on 01/23/2008, -1/+11I swear to ***** god, for 3 hours, I convinced one of the guys at a LAN party that Alt-F4 did exactly that. He tried and tried and tried, but always with the same result. Isn't that the definition of insanity?
- thebellmaster1x, on 01/23/2008, -0/+10http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
- heynoop, on 01/23/2008, -1/+11i don't think the Optimus has anything to worry about - this thing is ugly as hell.
- inactive, on 01/23/2008, -0/+10My keyboards get so dirty, I really don't know how much I would want to spend on one.
- Naryuu, on 01/23/2008, -2/+12does this mean no more tricking noobs into believing "alt-f4 for godmode" :(
- thomashallock, on 01/23/2008, -0/+8What amazes me is that even with the display keys, they still couldn't resist putting that stupid row of media / shopping / whatever keys along the top.
- ziptnf, on 01/23/2008, -1/+8Hi, pay me a grand for a keyboard. Thx.
- Mysk, on 01/23/2008, -0/+7I agree, although this would be useful for applications that have several keyboard short cuts. For development environments, graphic artists, and the like.
- cyborg, on 01/23/2008, -1/+7"The timing for the keyboard is late summer, 2007. Again, this is a real production unit built by a top keyboard manufacturer. It will include the software you need for user-customization. Thank you for your interest, and we'll stay in touch."
It's about a year late. - gungaroo22, on 01/23/2008, -0/+6Keyword: Several.
Several function keys.
Not the whole keyboard. You get what you pay for. - seldon452, on 01/23/2008, -4/+10Excuse me, I did not steal it. I borrowed it. Then I Changed some numbers and added some words.
- ikrit2006, on 01/23/2008, -0/+5I would like to patent the process of using the thoracic diaphragm to inhale and exhale air.
- clickwir, on 01/23/2008, -1/+6.... for about 5 mins. It's got tons of "wow factor" but really.... how many people need 101+ "screens" under their fingers?
I know I don't. I'll admire it and ohh at it for a few mins, then remind the person that has it that I'm better at my $10 keyboard than they are with their $4365234263 Optimus. - thebellmaster1x, on 01/23/2008, -0/+5Well, I can see where you're coming from in reference to regular typing, certainly. However, if I'm typing in Japanese, for example, it's not my native language, so I'll do it slowly enough that looking at the keyboard to find hiragana may actually help; as well, using a Photoshop layout would be helpful in that you don't have to switch tools so often that having the tools assigned to certain buttons wouldn't assist your speed.
Of course, this goes for the Optimus. The United Keys one, as far as I can see, has OLEDs on just the function keys, which I would personally find next-to-useless. - subxero37, on 01/23/2008, -0/+5You use both QWERTY and Dvorak? That's pretty bad-ass.
- jefferygomer, on 01/23/2008, -0/+4Step in the right direction. There needs to be more people trying to develop this, at the very least to drive the price down.
Now don't make it so fugly. - joshuabowers, on 01/23/2008, -0/+4You wouldn't want to know how much the custom keyboards done by the guy behind Datamancer go for: http://datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm
- RockLobstah, on 01/23/2008, -1/+5Maybe he made both and is trying to maximize his e-popularity gain.
But probably not. - garfonzo, on 01/23/2008, -0/+4I really don't see the need for these types of keyboards (personally). Is it that much easier to click a button on your keyboard versus clicking an icon on the screen? I don't know if I see the value yet.
- covertbadger, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3Ooohhhh, you BASTARD. Now I have to talk myself out of buying one of these to replace my boring normal Logitech wireless. Grr.
- dsmx, on 01/23/2008, -1/+4I think someone has already done that it's called a touch screen, except that has the innovation of not having any keys.
- Nerfdude, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3i scraped the letters off my keyboard. i never look at it, and i enjoy watching other people try to type when they use it. if i could get an oled keyboard for a very low price point, i'd just put some sort of animated screen saver on it, or maybe have it fade or colorchange which keys i use the most over time, or something neat like that, because i don't need to be told which key is which anyway.
- clickwir, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3I agree. Having 100+ little screens for you to type on just doesn't seem that useful. Sure there's a lot of "neato"-ness to it, but the only practical use I can think of is if you want to switch layouts.
- Tippis, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3If you're playing a game, you generally need to keep your attention on the screen -- the look of the buttons is quite irrelevant.
- cawpin, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3It's not necessarily the looking at of the keyboard but the COMPLETE customization of the keys. You can make ANY key do ANY function, or group of functions.
- drunkenirish, on 01/23/2008, -3/+6What's more interesting is the cell phone and tv remote(?) next to the keyboard on the site.
- DarkPhoen1x, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3What? He made a valid point. You made no point XD
- colonel62359, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3Am I the only one who finds it strange that, OLEDs aside, the shape and layout of this keyboard is almost identical to ye olde Microsoft Internet Keyboard?
- AZooYorkMystery, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3Remember the good old days? Back when printed keyboards were good enough?
Ahh, those were the days. - tgc1, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3Anything over 20 bucks is overkill in my books. You use it to input things. Why not spend the money you're pissing away on a bigger display, or more Memory, or, I don't know... something MORE ***** USEFUL.
- theblt, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3http://www.unitedkeys.com/what_are_display_keys.ht ...
Seeing this really put in perspective how ***** cool this technology is. I can imagine seeing this technology implemented in many devices in the near future. Imagine playing your Xbox and having the controller change the display on the buttons to reflect the controls for certain games. Sooooooo ***** awesome. - insomniac8400, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3I hope this is something just to test the patent waters and a full keyboard is on the way. These people will easily beat the russians to a viable cheap product.
- BookmasterIce, on 01/23/2008, -0/+2Well, i think the whole O.L.E.D. keyboard thing is over rated. Hot keys and Custom key layouts get the job done in software.
- rancidpony, on 01/23/2008, -0/+2I wonder what the non-obvious patentable item is... Programmable keys? Nope. Been done for a long time... Displays screens. Nope been around for a while. Display screens on keyboards? Seems a little obvious. The only thing thats held it off is the drop in prices to make it feasible.
- kazamx, on 01/23/2008, -0/+2Don't laugh at the guy just because his computer is pimped with about 50 different neon lights and a smoke machine.
- psygnisfive, on 01/23/2008, -2/+4Right, because 12 OLEDed keys is really competition for a whole ***** OLEDed keyboard.
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