Sweet Keyboard

noscottno · Post by **noscottno** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:39 pm

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

I know this is over a year old, but do you think It'd be worth it to buy?

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:44 pm

Damn. That is sick. First time I have seen it. How much is it though, wait, is it even for sale?

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:49 pm

This has been on Digg pretty much like...forever.

It's pretty much not going to happen, but if it did it'd be cool/extremely expensive. The price of the 3 key set is ~$100 from what I remember.

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:51 pm

Yea I wasn't planning on looking into it. It looks nice but probably way out of...well...everyone's price range. That is if they even get a patent.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:52 pm

I would buy it.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:45 am

The 3 key version got really bad reviews, apparently the screens aren't too good. It's Russian if my memory serves me, what do you expect.

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:08 am

Kirk wrote:I would buy it.

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:57 am

To much money just for a keyboard i'm happy with my neon light keyboard that only cost 50$.

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:33 pm

Edit: It's coming out, I'll be pre-ordering it. Optimus-103 keyboard pre-orders start December 12 It is due at the end of this year.
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Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:57 pm

Xero wrote:To much money just for a keyboard i'm happy with my neon light keyboard that only cost 50$.

I would buy it, I never said I will

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:27 pm

I'm fine with my generic gray cheap keyboard, I don't need fancy buttons to type.

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:45 pm

Only thing it needs now is a speaker. To say what key you type. >_<.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:49 pm

That would be very annoying and pointless.

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:52 pm

Tural wrote:That would be very annoying and pointless.

Well not pointless if you were blind. But then agian, you wouldn't know where to press the keys.., or where to click. Inless it has brail that pops out of the keys :O.

( Remember: I look down at the keyboard when I type >_<)

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:04 pm

That does look really nice. I wouldn't buy it, I am going to stick to my cheap keyboard.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:05 pm

-Legendary- wrote:Well not pointless if you were blind. But then agian, you wouldn't know where to press the keys.., or where to click. Inless it has brail that pops out of the keys :O.

There should be little things on the F and J keys, to identify them as the "Home Row" keys. If they learn how to type using them, braille on the keys would be useless, as would the sounds.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:56 pm

My Logitech S510 desktop set will do for now.

Maybe if the price drops to around $50, I can see myself saving for it.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:46 am

Blind people using computers... yes. A braile keyboard would help so much, all they need then is a screen that makes braile pixels.

That was the single most stupid comment I've heard today. almost as stupid as the fact that the blind get a discount on their TV license here...

My Saitek eclipse will do me fine, until I go blind.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:42 pm

iGeo wrote:Blind people using computers... yes. A braile keyboard would help so much, all they need then is a screen that makes braile pixels.

That was the single most stupid comment I've heard today. almost as stupid as the fact that the blind get a discount on their TV license here...

My Saitek eclipse will do me fine, until I go blind.

Uh, I don't know about Windows, but Mac OS X has a VoiceOver feature that reads out any dialog boxes that show up on-screen, and as you hit Tab, or whatever to go through choices, it reads those.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:44 pm

Windows has a function like that too, called Narrator.