- The Cat

How quaint.

Small number of folks, I think, but dedicated to the cause.

Update: Ah, here’s some good thinking. If you’re bilingual, this would indeed come in handy. Weird that they’re not pitching it that way.

Great, the Los Angeles school board will order a few thousand for their bi-lingual program.

That each key could be it’s own tip calculator is quite amazing but the keyboard itself would be to large to take to an eating establishment.

BL@KBIRD on April 23, 2008 at 11:44 PM

I heard Cadillac is coming out with an accessory to mount it near the dash. If you assign different tips ratios based on the type of establishment (coffee shop, Kenny Rogers, Baboo’s American Restaurant, early bird specials) someone can always run out to the car while the check is being figured out.

I’ll have to wait until next month…

I should just get Direct Deposit at ThinkGeek.com. I love that site!

I’d assign hotkeys to certatin key phrases: “pwned”, “lolz”, and of course “Someone set us up the bomb” and “All your base are belong to us” for instance.

Yes, this is a device whose time has come.

Explain to me what I’m missing here, techies.

Gaming, Photoshop, Aperture (any pro app that has a lot of complicated keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys).

For $1,600 I won’t even consider it. But if they edged it closer to $300 I’d be tempted.

The touch of the keys is a bit harsh, so I dink it for that. Personally, I’m of the CHEAP keyboard club, and when it gets jicky or crusty I toss that crap in the garbage and pull a new one out of the 5 pack. They usually last about 1-2 years. I have keyboards for about 6 years I figure!!

The above users are right: This is a fantastic keyboard for any professional video editors and graphic designers. But anyone else? We need a price drop before it’s worth it.

They have little stickers you can get to put on your keyboard but there’s no way I’m doing that, nor would it help given the number of computers I use on a given day.

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

But, really, the Tactus is where its at. think of a keyboard sized ipod that acts as your keyboard. Think of the possibilities.

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

I can’t imagine who needs this. Anybody really look at the keyboard when they type?

freevillage on April 23, 2008 at 11:00 PM

Yeah, And I STILL mess up from time to time.

If you’re bilingual, this would indeed come in handy. Weird that they’re not pitching it that way.

I am bilingual. Blind typing is where it’s at.

If you’re bilingual, this would indeed come in handy. Weird that they’re not pitching it that way.

Not $1,600 handy. I’m thinking that they’re going for the “cool” crowd and hoping that just one in the crowd has an idea so awesome, it’ll make the keyboard the next Apple II (which, if you recall, didn’t take off until Visicalc came along). There’s certainly potential to do something cool here. (Like, pick your favorite song from a library of 100,000 songs with only three keystrokes. Well, that but cooler and more useful.)

I only hope it’s indestructible, because otherwise I picture some very unhappy customers.

Anything that saves fractions of a second is money in the bank.

Unfortunately, however, it’s in someone else’s account…

Anything that saves fractions of a second is money in the bank.

Maybe you’ve got a map or some detailed diagram and when you move the mouse around, the keys show a different aspect of the object(s) your mouse is over. So you pick the one you want to work with. You can do that with a popup menu, but it is annoying to constantly be going up and down menus with the mouse.