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Sweet Keyboard
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:39 pm
by noscottno
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?
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:44 pm
by Pyroman
Damn. That is sick. First time I have seen it. How much is it though, wait, is it even for sale?
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:49 pm
by GametagAeonFlux
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 ~$100 from what I remember.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:51 pm
by Pyroman
Yea I wasn't planning on looking into it. It looks nice but probably way out of...well...everyone's price range. That is if they even get a patent.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:52 pm
by Kirk
I would buy it.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:45 am
by Geo
The 3 key version got really bad reviews, apparently the screens aren't too good. It's Russian if my memory serves me, what do you expect.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:08 am
by xXxCocoFangxXx
Kirk wrote:I would buy it.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:57 am
by Xero
To much money just for a keyboard i'm happy with my neon light keyboard that only cost 50$.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:33 pm
by HPDarkness
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:57 pm
by Kirk
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
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:27 pm
by Tural
I'm fine with my generic gray cheap keyboard, I don't need fancy buttons to type.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:45 pm
by -Legendary-
Only thing it needs now is a speaker. To say what key you type. >_<.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:49 pm
by Tural
That would be very annoying and pointless.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:52 pm
by -Legendary-
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 >_<)
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:04 pm
by StalkingGrunt911
That does look really nice. I wouldn't buy it, I am going to stick to my cheap keyboard.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:05 pm
by Tural
-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.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:56 pm
by shadowkhas
My Logitech S510 desktop set will do for now.
Maybe if the price drops to around $50, I can see myself saving for it.
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:46 am
by Geo
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:42 pm
by shadowkhas
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:44 pm
by Tural
Windows has a function like that too, called Narrator.