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- JernejL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36So when are they going to rename it "Optimus 103 forever"? this keyboard better comes with a kitchen sink when it is released!
- STKD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20You know what would be far more impressive?
If they actually RELEASED the damn product. - Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I can't wait to play Duke Nukem Forever on this!
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It's not that kind of swapping. The idea is you can swap out OLED keys for regular plastic keys like you're using right now. That way you could save some money by buying a keyboard with only 10 OLED keys, and the rest would be normal keys. Then as you have more money, you could add more OLED keys to the keyboard.
- vulcanius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9This reminds me of the domokun pictures.
Every time you post about that damned keyboard, god kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens. - KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11No, this is a direct link to source.
http://community.livejournal.com/optimus_project/21809.html - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Meh. I like to feel the keys below my fingers. But I'm sure something like you just mentioned is on someone's drawing board.
- PradaPete, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16nobody is eating up the hype anymore. Even joking about this product is not funny anymore.
Of course, it will never see the light of day. Maybe if I'm very optimistic I'll give Art that he can make on prototype for showing on fairs, that will be around 2020. But by then he will be so poor that he has to sell his sisters to a German whorehouse. Wait, most russian girls work there anyway. - kirk06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8That keyboard is dead to me. The hype is long gone from this home.
They dropped the bomb on this keyboard.
Say, does this guy work for Sony? - humanseemer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You don't get tactile feedback that way. It would be hard as hell to type on that without looking at it.
- jdimstrbean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I thought the whole idea of this keyboard was that the OLEDs change, so you didn't need to swap them.
- jtcalhoun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5NEWS-FLASH: Optimus Keyboard to be whatever it needs to be to keep people marginally interested!
- Janus67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4because your fingers would hurt like hell afterwards.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's a great idea. Too bad he can't ***** produce a working model, only photoshopped comps.
I would use these so I wouldn't have to memorize shortcuts for various programs and games- it is extremely useful in that aspect.
But again, he will never manufacture it. I mean for ***** sake, he posts product updates to a LIVEJOURNAL. - fcmk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5If I see that ***** keyboard one more time
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2can i swap it for 1000 dollars back in my pocket?
- DenTPuzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Let me know when it's on the shelves... until then - enough already!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This keyboard doesn't exist.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When it can be produced for a reasonable price, if this guy doesn't jump on the idea someone will. It's no secret that if these actually existed they would sell like ***** hotcakes.
- V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't know which is sadder. The "inventors" of this vaporware or the people waiting for it...
- markthegoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thought about that many times myself, but the thing is as i type this, im not looking at the keyboard, although perhaps a clear section cover lattice would allow you to get a feel for where the keys are.
- eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This just in: Optimus is teaming up with 3D Realms. The Optimus 103 is going to be a pack-in bundle with Duke Nukem Forever.
- S2ThaNizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Okay, how about a large LCD screen behind a set of transparent keys?
- iwillrefuse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Okay, wait. So now I'm SUPPOSED to look at the keys? I told my 5th-grade typing teacher I was ahead of my time.
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Why don't they just make a touch sensitive LCD keyboard in one piece. Like the iPhone but keyboard size and with the keys displayed on the screen. Then you could change the keyboard layout and the actual layout of the keys. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than that Optimus thing they are planning. Alright it would be like typing on an futuristic ZX81 but I could live with that.
Excuse me while I copyright this idea. - MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hilton, do you have multiple personalities or are you just copy & pasting the news text?
- m00dy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Give it a few years and all keyboards will be like this with better concepts
- pegleg1971, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you for the linkjack, now I only have to click one more time in addition to the ten already to get some proper information on this. You rule subby!
- kb0x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I get the feeling in about 6 months time they will come out and day "haha fooled you, There is no such thing as the optimus keyboard".
They seem to be a company that run on hype rather than a product that we can buy. - gemadouble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I shat house brick ?
Just release the keyboard. - 1310nm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I hope this thing will connect to my Phantom console so I can play Duke Nukem Forever on it without a thumb joy!
- Felion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Once they bring the goddamn thing to market and I can see it on shelves/ e-shelves I'll get all excited over the Optimus again. Until then don't give the bastards any diggs/ publicity! I want them hungry so they'll finish my keyboard!
- burstaneurysm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So do I get to pay $500 more now because of the hot swapping? It was and still is a cool idea, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of buyers.
- kabo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Like I said, the standard keyboard does NOT show you what you're about to do.
You don't interact with your screen. The screen only gives feedback about what you've done.
This keyboard would give feedback about what you're about to do.
Yes, power users learn the most frequent key-combinations by heart, but is that really very user friendly? I say it's great to allow the user to learn them, but don't force the poor guy. - leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The damn keys better be swappable, because you can be sure that some of them are going to burn out and fail over the lifetime of the keyboard.
With 103 LCD displays in one product, what do you think that MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) is going to be on that product? Not good, especially considering that folks are going to be pounding on those displays while they type. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How would it be any different? You're supposed to be looking at the screen, not the keyboard!
I can't help but think this keyboard has no value whatsoever except showing off. - SweetChuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kevin45 said, "I would use these so I wouldn't have to memorize shortcuts for various programs and games- it is extremely useful in that aspect."
I'm not specifically ripping on you Kevin, I've seen a lot of people make that comment, but why are you looking at the keyboard? I can understand when you are just learning a program it might be helpful, I can understand if it's a little used function, but if you are using the programs enough that you use the shortcuts, you should have them memorized, if for no other reason then you use them everyday. This keyboard maybe good for training, and it looks good, but once you become proficient in the program you are using, the keyboard becomes obsolete. - shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This keyboard is way too late and way too lame by now. Wake me up when it's 2010 and other companies have beaten them to the punch.
Also, all they've been doing is showing computer renders of their product... Nothing real. It's kind of sad. - Stopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So basically the keys were so expensive they had to come up with a way for you to buy only part of the keyboard. How about just having a touchscreen that's about the size of a keyboard. It would have a speaker to give feedback like the iPod click wheel. The thing could even work as a second monitor. I think this would be a cheaper more easily implemented soloution.
- verifex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not a pro-big-business kind of person, but I'm beginning to wish that some big business keyboard manufacturer would buy this idea from this guy so we could actually see a real product with this implementation in this century.
- tMANwi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As always, I want one. This would be amazing to have with Final Cut, Photoshop, and of course COD2/BF2.
- texx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm starting to wonder if Timothy Roberts is somehow involved with development/marketing at Optimus.
- MrFlesh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'd pay for this thing if it was a $1000 (all OLED keys) How cool would it be for all your game hotkeys to load up different pictures when you start a game for each key. Imagine the conversation piece if you have it connected to media center PC and it sits on your coffee table in standby mode with fish swimming across it. I've been waiting for this thing yfor years.
- PradaPete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nofxdude
no they wouldn't because the product is not attractive - tMANwi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's true, you are Supposed to be looking at the screen, but it would really help to be a customizable layout, I know in Final Cut that customizing can be a pain due to all the overlapping keys.
- TransmitThis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Also pretty fed up with this now,
Art did say he would send me one to review,
but after waiting over a year I emailed him not to bother,
Lifes too short and things will have moved on by the time this comes out
Shame but there you go too much hype and too little product surrounding this - pcorajr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2great idead and great looking, to expensive.... 1200 US for a keyboard?
Give it a few more years and one of the big company, (MS or Logitech) will have something similar - SmartITGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Be patient people...
Art Lebedev is waiting for the full-colour OLED technologies to come down in price. It's still in it's infancy. Even at the volumes he would be buying the little OLED display modules, HIS current cost would be in the $5 to $10 per module. Multiply that by the number of keys, and you got one kick ass but expensive as hell keyboard. No-one will buy a $500 to $1000 keyboard. At that price he couldn't sell enough of them to pay for the cost of tooling for manufacture. - Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1How do you say vapourware in Russian?
- kabo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hehe, your funny.
But seriously it's not a bad idea. Giving more feedback to the user is never a bad idea from a usability standpoint. Why should I have to remember which key to press to get te eraser in Photoshop? The razor in Final Cut Pro? I live in Sweden and sometimes need to use an american keyboard layout. That also means the keys on my keyboard don't correspond to the chars popping up on my screen.
Giving me direct feedback that "this button does that" all the time is a GREAT idea. It's acutally quite impressive (depressing?) that this hasn't been on the market for at least 10 years... -
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