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Did you lose faith. |
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| Never |
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11% |
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| No |
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33% |
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| Wasn't sure |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Yes |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Still not convinced |
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0% |
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| Optimus? Keyboard? What? |
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33% |
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| My keyboard is made out of soap |
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22% |
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icarus
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Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Location: Olympia Washington
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SethP
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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Location: Connecticut, USA
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 Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: |
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Ah yes, the programmable OLED keyboard.
To be honest, I'm not sure what's the point. If I use a particular application, I'm going to know the keyboard accelerators for that app. As with typing, looking down at the keys would probably do nothing but slow me down. It would be cool to have my keys change dynamically (If my keyboard could do a screensaver-esque light show, I may never do a single useful thing again), how is this supposed to help people be productive?
Also, I find the following amusing:
| Quote: | Production schedule:
Beginning of December 2007—200 keyboards
End of December 2007—200 keyboards
January 2008—400 keyboards |
So they're making a grand total of 400 keyboards a month? Even if nobody wants these things, they're gonna be rarer than the Wii. |
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icarus
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Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Location: Olympia Washington
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:54 am Post subject: |
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And more expensive. At $1500 dollars is costs moar than most PCs.
But production will go up, cost will go down, imitators will move in, and by 2010 this will be about as common as tablet PCs. |
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Crussh
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 151
Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: |
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LoL like anybody is gonna buy that, even if their keyboard is made of soap  |
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Fost
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| Crussh wrote: | | LoL like anybody is gonna buy that, even if their keyboard is made of soap |
I have to admit, I covet it like Gollum covets the 'one ring', but the price is indeed insane. I'm also not sure it's any good in reality - they were talking about the oleds not moving, and just having clear topped keys that slide up and down over the oled - pants!
Still, two usb slots and a card reader is great, plus it looks slick. Would be cool if all apps supported this kind of keyboard eventually. Imagine playing Mr. Robot and all the keys go black apart from the ones that function in the game, which show up with nice icons  |
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Konedima
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| Imagine if all programs supported my keyboard (which until that thing comes out is probably the most complicated and needless keybaord available), the Logitech G15! Makes me want to to play around with SDK to see if I could get it to work in War Pong. |
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Fost
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Imagine if Saitek provided a way for us to support their stupid keyboards so that Mr. Robot would work with them*
*instead their website recommends you disable part of the keyboard functionality to make it work with games !?!?!?! |
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Crussh
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 11:58 am Post subject: |
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| Fost wrote: | | Crussh wrote: | | LoL like anybody is gonna buy that, even if their keyboard is made of soap |
I have to admit, I covet it like Gollum covets the 'one ring', but the price is indeed insane. I'm also not sure it's any good in reality - they were talking about the oleds not moving, and just having clear topped keys that slide up and down over the oled - pants!
Still, two usb slots and a card reader is great, plus it looks slick. Would be cool if all apps supported this kind of keyboard eventually. Imagine playing Mr. Robot and all the keys go black apart from the ones that function in the game, which show up with nice icons |
Yea whatever, but the price is like a gun to the head, so...SOAP KEYBOARD FTW |
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SethP
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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Location: Connecticut, USA
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Crussh wrote: | | Yea whatever, but the price is like a gun to the head, so...SOAP KEYBOARD FTW |
Especially since the soap keyboard doesn't hog your CPU. |
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icarus
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Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Location: Olympia Washington
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anybody remember the significance of the soap answer? Or am getting old? |
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mowfax
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't get this whole "soap" thing... guess I missed something huge  |
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icarus
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Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Location: Olympia Washington
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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You didn't miss anything. I'm just old. Someone once (long time ago) commented about how the typical answers on a form poll are.
Very yes!
yes.
Neutral.
No.
Very no!
Huh?
and the joke answer.
the example for the joke answer was "soap tastes funny"
Since then my joke answers have always mentioned soap. Its like the discussion pod's version of Cowboy Neal.
Now am I the only one who remembers this? |
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SethP
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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Location: Connecticut, USA
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Umm, I'm afraid so icarus. Good memory though. |
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icarus
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Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Location: Olympia Washington
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Well this was back in 04-05ish so you have an excuse. |
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Crussh
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| I thought it meant: "My keyboard is **** and i dont care for new fancy stuff!" Which is accurate for me since my keyboard is rotting, keys are actually starting to fall apart so i have to take them off |
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