Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st - Gizmodo Comments

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

Luis Camino — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:12:26 EST

put a scroll wheel and i'd pay whatever they ask for.

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

Mystery-Man — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:23:55 EST

ok... im a geek, and that keyboard it freaking awesome!... eye candy... I use photoshop and call of duty 2... so it will be usefull to me and those firefox and eMule logos KICK A**

Mystery-Man

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

Monty — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:07:26 EST

What is the point of this thing, besides looking cool? Just checking, because I have 12 function keys I never use, so being able to program 100+ keys seems like an answer to a question no one has. But, I agree that it looks so cool that it might be worth buying just to impress geeky friends.

Monty

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

PMonkey — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:12:12 EST

I so desire this keyboard that it hurts my groin. Normally I lease my rubber gloves, but I might have to exercise my option to buy them just so I don't have to worry about keepin' my Optimus--nay, Rodimus--nice and shiny. Oh, man. Throw in some energon-powered cathode lighting and a Winamp Visualization mod and Unicron won't know what f***ing hit him. Not that he would anyway; Orson Welles is totally dead. Till all are one.

PMonkey

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

Joachim Bengtsson — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:07:52 EST

I look forward to the inevitable Quake/Doom-port to run spanned over all those key screens ;) (cooler-than-cool if embedded on the actual device firmware, as-cool-as-cool if ran as an app on the connected computer)

Joachim Bengtsson

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

ecmuller — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:36:39 EST

Hmmm...I have the urge to write a program that will randomly re-order the keys every ten seconds...as well as change languages "Ahhh...my Q just moved way over here...OMG!!! it's turned chinese!!!" Or just make them all smiley faces Can you imagine all the nefarious evil things you could do with this... On the other hand you could make a hotkey to switch from Dvorak to Qwerty

ecmuller

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

Erzengel — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:16:41 EST

I want 2!!!

Erzengel

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

masteryoda — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:47:48 EST

They keyboard will sell for $ 350. More than a 19" LCD, but it is definately worth the price.

masteryoda

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

Nick — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:31:20 EST

Another interesting feature is being able to change the character set - so we can change to that funky Dvorak layout on the fly without having to paste new letters on our keys :p and LD is right, its an OLED keyboard, not LCD - OLED is a lot cheaper to make than LCD, but I still expect this keyboard to be in the $300 range.

Nick

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

Oz — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:26:33 EST

seems interesting! hopefully they will make a wireless version in the near future :)

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

sammy baby — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:18:27 EST

Function keys, transform - and roll out!

sammy baby

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

SynapticMeltdown — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:59:28 EST

If this thing is wireless and inexpensive enough it would be great. just think of all the fun you could have moving buttons around, setting up hotkeys in a friendly way. But will its usefulness warrent its cost? We will see

SynapticMeltdown

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

papaguru — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:40:50 EST

FINALLY! Yeah! Did you see a working keyboard at CES?

papaguru

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

LD — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:36:20 EST

OLEDs, not LCDs.

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

James — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:31:54 EST

I'm highly skeptical about this keyboard. Has anyone seen any guesses on price? How much can a mini-color LCD screen cost? 110 of them? Who actually uses paper cutout keyboard templates? Or those funky gamer keyboards with the game keys on them? I think most people like it because it's quite cool looking, but will this be useful?

James

Optimus Keyboard May Launch February 1st

Nick — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:31:36 EST

Who knows for sure, not seen any 'real' product photography in the blogosphere, but if this thing is released, it'll be my iMac's early birthday present :D

Nick