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Offline Taristin

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Reply #20 on: July 15, 2005, 06:31:29 pm
[q]Frequently Answered Answers about the Optimus keyboard
It's in initial stage of production
We hope it will be released in 2006
It will cost less than a good mobile phone
It will be real
It will be OS-independent (at least it can work in some default state with any OS)
It will support any language or layout
Moscow is the capital of Russia
Each key could be programmed to produce any sequence
It will be an open-source keyboard, SDK will be available
Some day it will be split ('ergonomic')
It will most likely use OLED technology (e-paper is sooo slow)
Our studio is located two blocks from the Kremlin
It will feature a key-saver
Keys will use animation when needed
It has numeric keypad because we love it
There's no snow in Moscow during Summer
It will be available worldwide (why not?)
OEM will be possible (why not?)
Contact us for hi-res images, or interview inquires[/q]
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Re: The Optimus Keyboard
Reply #21 on: July 15, 2005, 06:58:57 pm
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Originally posted by Splinter
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

I dont have much to add... :drevil:


I want one.

Yesss.... we wants it... we WANTS IT!!!!

Of course a high-refresh rate E-Paper programmable touch pad would be even better. Design any shape of keys you want...
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Offline Nuke

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Reply #22 on: July 15, 2005, 07:03:15 pm
is it wireless? :D
it better be!
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

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Reply #23 on: July 15, 2005, 07:11:27 pm
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Originally posted by Goober5000
You know that in your heart that's just the same as technoadultery. :p


Perhaps, but since I'm only sinning against a keyboard, I don't think God will have an issue with that. Just as long as I have my priorities right.

Now, where was I? Ah, yes, I was gonna check prices for flights to Moscow... ;)

Raa: "key-saver" - Awesome! This thing could be sooo much fun. Whatcha wanna bet ThinkGeek'll try and get their hands on it? :p
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Reply #24 on: July 15, 2005, 07:20:06 pm
Well according to  St. Mary's church in Colorado Springs you're going to hell since:

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28-Plays videos games that contains violence or are of a role-playing nature.

29-Uses the internet excessively and frequently makes time for the computer.


...and the only reason I know this is a certain person who makes Liberator look like a moderate is unfortunately a moderator on the Starsiege 2845 forums... (a moderator who makes flaming topics, who would have thought it? :p )

Oh and if you ever wear black or listen to rock music, you're also evil too ;)
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #25 on: July 15, 2005, 07:34:53 pm
Sick, Sad world.
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Offline FireCrack

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Reply #26 on: July 15, 2005, 08:18:31 pm
They wouldnt have a website, would they?
actualy, mabye not.
"When ink and pen in hands of men Inscribe your form, bipedal P They draw an altar on which God has slaughtered all stability, no eyes could ever soak in all the places you anoint, and yet to see you all at once we only need the point. Flirting with infinity, your geometric progeny that fit inside you oh so tight with triangles that feel so right."
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Offline Goober5000

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Reply #27 on: July 15, 2005, 08:40:22 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Raa
[q]Moscow is the capital of Russia[/q]
Maybe some wise guy asked them that and they turned it around on him. :)
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Perhaps, but since I'm only sinning against a keyboard, I don't think God will have an issue with that. Just as long as I have my priorities right.
I have only one response to that: Psalm 51:4a. ;)
 

Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #28 on: July 15, 2005, 09:35:02 pm
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
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.


Illuminated keyboard? Now that is pointless. As for the rest of it, fair enough, but I think it'd be horribly distracting, having the keys change all the time. Shortcuts are good enough for me...

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It will cost less than a good mobile phone


So ~£200, then? Erk...
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Reply #29 on: July 15, 2005, 09:59:27 pm
good mobile phones here are like $150 or something.

i still want that sum***** though!

[EDIT] since when was the 'b' word censored? :wtf:
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Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #30 on: July 15, 2005, 10:19:12 pm
Nonono. Just the handset. Not buying it with a contract, or pay-as-you-go or anything, just the handset. They're not cheap at all...
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Reply #31 on: July 15, 2005, 10:20:09 pm
ah.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

Offline ZylonBane

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Re: Re: The Optimus Keyboard
Reply #32 on: July 15, 2005, 11:16:43 pm
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Originally posted by Ace
Of course a high-refresh rate E-Paper programmable touch pad would be even better.

No, it would suck ass. It's impossible to touch-type on a featureless flat surface.
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Offline Turnsky

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Reply #33 on: July 15, 2005, 11:21:55 pm
Photoshop keys?.....





I WANTSES!
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Offline FireCrack

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Reply #34 on: July 15, 2005, 11:58:12 pm
freespace keys too!
actualy, mabye not.
"When ink and pen in hands of men Inscribe your form, bipedal P They draw an altar on which God has slaughtered all stability, no eyes could ever soak in all the places you anoint, and yet to see you all at once we only need the point. Flirting with infinity, your geometric progeny that fit inside you oh so tight with triangles that feel so right."
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944 59230781640628620899862803482534211706...
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Reply #35 on: July 16, 2005, 01:04:05 am
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Originally posted by FireCrack
freespace keys too!


I already said that.
Wh00t!? Vinyl? Is it like an I-pod 2 or something?

[/sarcasm]

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Reply #36 on: July 16, 2005, 03:54:39 am
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Originally posted by pyro-manic
Illuminated keyboard? Now that is pointless.


:wtf: Why in the world do you think that? It's only slightly less ridiculous than saying that having a backlight on your cellphone is pointless.
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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 Turnsky

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Reply #37 on: July 16, 2005, 04:09:58 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich


:wtf: Why in the world do you think that? It's only slightly less ridiculous than saying that having a backlight on your cellphone is pointless.


you're telling me, mine can light my room nicely :p
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Offline FireCrack

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Reply #38 on: July 16, 2005, 04:26:44 am
Mine makes a good flashlight too!
actualy, mabye not.
"When ink and pen in hands of men Inscribe your form, bipedal P They draw an altar on which God has slaughtered all stability, no eyes could ever soak in all the places you anoint, and yet to see you all at once we only need the point. Flirting with infinity, your geometric progeny that fit inside you oh so tight with triangles that feel so right."
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944 59230781640628620899862803482534211706...
"Your ever-constant homily says flaw is discipline, the patron saint of imperfection frees us from our sin. And if our transcendental lift shall find a final floor, then Man will know the death of God where wonder was before."
 

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Re: Re: Re: The Optimus Keyboard
Reply #39 on: July 16, 2005, 05:24:46 am
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Originally posted by ZylonBane

No, it would suck ass. It's impossible to touch-type on a featureless flat surface.


Touch-typing is for, as Kazan would say, primitive mundanes. ;)

It's called remembering where keys actually are.
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