Optimus keyboard

[md]

Optimus Keyboard

Ok, ok... not exactly on topic, but it sure ain't off topic either. Looks sweet for gaming, and for normal use too! Imagine... you could set it to do whatever you wanted, need a compile key? No problem! Want to map "if()", "for(;", or any other oft used part of a language to a key? Done! And you can get icons or text on the key too! (I really like it ).

I'm hoping that they find someone to manufacture them, and hopefully getthe cost down so I can affort one.

[edit] fixed my typo in the link

[[Gandalf]]

Yep, wtd showed me this earlier and I had an idea. Why not have each key as an lcd display, and then for whatever program you load the different keys get configured to make that program more convenient to use. That way you don't need to keep configuring each key for your uses, and you have whatever each key does nicely displayed. My patent, no stealing
Really, no stealing or injuries will occur heh.

[md]

well it's already made of OLEDS... as for the rest that would be a driver things; which I'm sure will be implemented.

[zylum]

thats sweet!

image if they made it cordless... youd have to change the batteries every day!

[Tony]

how heavy are those keys?

a matrix of OLEDs in each one, a microcontroller to make the image display... a wire connection to the microcontroller to load the icons..

There would have to be a fair bit of mechanical parts involed to keep those heavy keys moving up and down responsivly, while maintaining that cable connection without too much tear.

That could ofcourse be avoided by making the keys touch sensetive, but then one might as well make the entire keyboard to be a single touchscreen.

PATENT PENDING!

[Martin]

Yeah, it looks pretty slick. I'd buy one.

[md]

Tony wrote:

how heavy are those keys?
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That could ofcourse be avoided by making the keys touch sensetive, but then one might as well make the entire keyboard to be a single touchscreen.

PATENT PENDING!

And you could actually change the key sizes, or move them around; It'd just be a giant LCD display with a touch sensor on top!

[1of42]

I've seen that before... I WANT IT!

[[Gandalf]]

Yeah, actually I saw something like that quite a while ago too. When doom 3 came out, I saw a guy on tv advertising a specific 'doom 3' board that looked a lot like this one. It's probably the same thing though, just expanded.

[Martin]

I think that the extra keys are so that it can support different language sets.

[Mazer]

But who types while looking at the keyboard?!

[Dan]

I side it once and i will say it again "I am not going to pay $400 for a keyborad when i can get one out of the dumster behind the CS buliding for free".

[Notoroge]

It's a novelty. It's just plain cool to be playing quake and for each key to show what gun it's bound to. OMFG, I want one.

[wtd]

Coutsos wrote:

But who types while looking at the keyboard?!

You would if your keyboard looked like that.

[Dan]

Notoroge wrote:

It's a novelty. It's just plain cool to be playing quake and for each key to show what gun it's bound to. OMFG, I want one.

Maybe so but i could pain that free keyborad i found and get a free or low cost keyborad for every game and pait it difrently and u get the same thing for free or close to it. I have a stack of about 30 keyborads in my clostes and i whould have no problem making one for each game, lol.