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Offline Splinter

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on: July 15, 2005, 03:04:11 am
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. Yiddish proverb
 

Offline Martinus

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Reply #1 on: July 15, 2005, 03:06:41 am
[color=66ff00]I've been up all night and my head is teeming with Transformers jokes. :drevil:


BTW you do know that it's gonna cost the GNP of a third world country if it ever is put into production. Organic LED doo-dahs are both expensive to create and have a short lifetime.
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Offline Rson

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Reply #2 on: July 15, 2005, 03:30:09 am
Looks nice but I'll stick with my regular keyboard, cheaper and probable more practical.
"It's like how much more black could this be?  And the answer is none, none more black." -This Is Spinal Tap

"What do you mean 'I ain't kind'?  I'm just not your kind." -'Peace Sells' by Megadeth
 

Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #3 on: July 15, 2005, 03:32:55 am
Damn.

I'd wreck it in a month, though. I've never been easy on keyboards; I'm lucky my current one has lasted as long as it has (6 months or so).

Edit: They have both Firefox and IE keys - BLASPHEMY!
-C
 

Offline Sandwich

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Reply #4 on: July 15, 2005, 03:37:55 am
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #5 on: July 15, 2005, 04:53:11 am
I can't help but think using stickers would be a lot cheaper in the long run.

and the short run.
 

Offline Grug

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Reply #6 on: July 15, 2005, 04:55:15 am
That would be awsome if I got one for free.

Especially the Photoshop shortcuts, I always forget some of those...
 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Reply #7 on: July 15, 2005, 08:59:56 am
It would be awesome if that keyboard had a leetspeak mode.
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel
 

Offline Mefustae

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Reply #8 on: July 15, 2005, 09:05:57 am
Hooray, now i can streamline my Internet usage by adding a button simply labed..."PORN"...in the place of the enter key, i mean, i don't use it that much anyway :p
 

Offline Kosh

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Reply #9 on: July 15, 2005, 01:14:05 pm
Wow..........



I actually might have use for a keyboard like that in the future......
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

Brain I/O error
Replace and press any key
 

Offline Ghost

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Reply #10 on: July 15, 2005, 01:32:00 pm
That would be totally awesome for making a Freespace 'console.' Christ. That'd be so cool.
Wh00t!? Vinyl? Is it like an I-pod 2 or something?

[/sarcasm]

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Offline vyper

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Reply #11 on: July 15, 2005, 01:33:44 pm
Be cheaper to make a single plate touch screen unit (like the display of a Tablet PC) and map a keyboard image, other other controls, onto it.
"But you live, you learn.  Unless you die.  Then you're ****ed." - aldo14
 

Offline EtherShock

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Reply #12 on: July 15, 2005, 01:35:58 pm
Awesome but is it marketable? ^.^
 

Offline Kosh

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Reply #13 on: July 15, 2005, 01:40:57 pm
Is it on sale yet? :p
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

Brain I/O error
Replace and press any key
 

Offline Gapie

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Reply #14 on: July 15, 2005, 01:57:53 pm
I NEED  that keyboard :jaw:
 

Offline Ashrak

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Reply #15 on: July 15, 2005, 03:39:01 pm
i hope you guys read the text before posting just FYI every key is a lcd ;)
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #16 on: July 15, 2005, 03:52:54 pm
I'm pretty sure that's just a rendered image too.
-C
 

Offline Goober5000

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Reply #17 on: July 15, 2005, 03:54:30 pm
Ooh.  Switch between Dvorak and Qwerty with ease!

Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
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You know that in your heart that's just the same as technoadultery. :p
 

Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #18 on: July 15, 2005, 05:25:57 pm
Bleh. Seems rather pointless IMO.... :blah:
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Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #19 on: July 15, 2005, 06:01:56 pm
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Originally posted by pyro-manic
Bleh. Seems rather pointless IMO.... :blah:
What are you, stupid? The ability to graphically portray application-specific key definitions is extremely pointful. The fact that it's an illuminated keyboard too is just a bonus.

A shame it doesn't actually exist.
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