Coolest keyboard EVAR!
And i hope it's not vaporware.
Optimus
This is one of those ideas I wish Apple would have made standard but it's good to see 3rd party innovation out there. I would love to see customizable drivers for this and the ability to see what characters you have by holding down option, control, shift, whatever and have it displayed on your keyboard. And then having to have a keyboard screen saver.
Some other things I would like to see are on boot up show you your options on boot (C key says "CD boot", T key would display "Target Disk", option key would display "Other boot devices...", etc.)
Optimus
This is one of those ideas I wish Apple would have made standard but it's good to see 3rd party innovation out there. I would love to see customizable drivers for this and the ability to see what characters you have by holding down option, control, shift, whatever and have it displayed on your keyboard. And then having to have a keyboard screen saver.
Some other things I would like to see are on boot up show you your options on boot (C key says "CD boot", T key would display "Target Disk", option key would display "Other boot devices...", etc.)
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Originally posted by Outsider
And i hope it's not vaporware.
Optimus
This is one of those ideas I wish Apple would have made standard but it's good to see 3rd party innovation out there. I would love to see customizable drivers for this and the ability to see what characters you have by holding down option, control, shift, whatever and have it displayed on your keyboard. And then having to have a keyboard screen saver.
Some other things I would like to see are on boot up show you your options on boot (C key says "CD boot", T key would display "Target Disk", option key would display "Other boot devices...", etc.)
I really like the idea of integrating Key Maps with the keyboard. However, the application-launcher keys are kind of silly.
Originally posted by Mr. Me
I really like the idea of integrating Key Maps with the keyboard. However, the application-launcher keys are kind of silly.
Agreed. How many timed do you launch Safari? Once a week? And it's already in the dock... I can find much better uses for them. Even Expose/Dashboard would be a better use for them.
As for the keyboard, it's a solution looking for a problem, and an expensive solution at that. It's vaporware and it should stay vaporware. There are plenty of better ideas for keyboards out there that haven't gained traction. I like the Comfort Ergonomic Keyboards and some of the Kinesis models, too.
If this keyboard is real, I will buy it just to support the R and D. Genoristy just flows thru my veins.
Any time now...
Originally posted by onlooker
Old News. This thing was posted in here over a year ago, and I still think it's vapor. It's hard to say.
The renders were published and announced in July '05. Supposedly there is a prototype, but no manufacturer yet, so don't hold your breath.
Anyway, they announced that they will make a statement on Feb 1st with more details. I'm the market if it provs to be a top notch product and is anywhere below 300usd... The amount of games I play would justify this
Originally posted by ZO
i was reading up that the power consumtion was too great for USB... so, either there will be a need for external power (insane), or they will have to wait a few more years and use ePaper technology with a few thousand colors palette. Or, they've come up with something ingenious.. Oh, and the rumored price was just silly insane: around 5-600$
Anyway, they announced that they will make a statement on Feb 1st with more details. I'm the market if it provs to be a top notch product and is anywhere below 300usd... The amount of games I play would justify this
They also said they wont be using ePaper it will be OLED. It's still a total vapor idea anyway. Manufacturing cost's and replacement parts via warranty alone would probably bankrupt them even if they were $600.00+ a pop.
Originally posted by ZO
i was reading up that the power consumtion was too great for USB... so, either there will be a need for external power (insane), or they will have to wait a few more years and use ePaper technology with a few thousand colors palette.
Maybe they can make it wireless and use a battery pack the size of a Powerbook's. (Excuse me, MacBook.)
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I'm the market if it provs to be a top notch product and is anywhere below 300usd... The amount of games I play would justify this
No, it wouldn't. In the heat of gaming, the last thing you should be doing is looking at the keyboard to see which key to press. You've got to know instantly which key you need without taking your eyes off the screen. If you're really that much of a gamer, you should have a Belkin Nostromo Speedpad n52. I don't game, but I bought one anyway and it's amazing for other applications as well. I like being able to have every important control for VLC (jump 10 seconds, jump 1 minute, jump 5 minutes, audio sync up/down, etc.) at my fingertips and arranged the way I like it, not the way somebody else designed it. The only thing I don't like is that Belkin's drivers seem rather unstable. I've had four kernal panics since installing their drivers, more than I've had in the three years previous. Hopefully, they'll fix this in a Universal Binaries driver. Heck, I'll be happy if they write a UB driver. I don't want to give up the Speedpad and Rosetta isn't a permanent solution. Or hopefully Montalcini does rewrite USB Overdrive to support different assignments for each USB device.