OLED display keyboard concept
It seems like not a week goes by that I don't have a new favorite keyboard. This week is no different. My new favorite keyboard is just a concept, but it's a concept I really really dig. Have a look at the Optimus keyboard, where every key is a stand alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at that very moment. Like so...
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BC said 2:49PM on 7-14-2005
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT!!!! HOW MUCH??? I DON"T CARE! WANT!
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Gordon Werner said 2:53PM on 7-14-2005
This has to be one of the cooler inventions I have seen in a while ... I cannot believe that noone came up with this before.
Switch fonts and your keyboard switches fonts ... never mind languages, character sets, keyboard layouts, hell I would imagine that you could leave messages like "Do not touch" or "go away" lit up on the keys
hope it comes to be
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Josh said 3:50PM on 7-14-2005
I must have this - I must have this
My tempered consumerism is quickly abating, I am lost in throes of pure materialistic rapture!!!
GIVE ME - IT MUST BE MIIIIINNNEEE !!!!!!!!!
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Casey Kelley said 7:12PM on 7-14-2005
This has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen. They should pitch this to Logitech or someone big so that they can get this thing into mass production, and get it into mass production NOW.
I'd pay $200 for this... no question.
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LT said 9:11PM on 7-14-2005
wow, thats smart
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narco said 9:30PM on 7-14-2005
I agree, this is absolutely amazing.
Since I work with design apps on a daily basis for work, this would be great for switching fonts. Sometimes I want a single letter that looks really cool when enlarged, but it's a pain having to type the complete alphabet and changing the fonts manually.
Also, since I bought a Macally IceKey a while back, I could never switch back to a keyboard with raised keys. I love the low-profile "laptop" keys so much and this keyboard looks like an in-between point.
I think the older I get, I find certain tech products sexy. Is this normal?
Fishes,
narco.
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maRRRk said 10:39PM on 7-14-2005
i love it, but...
my hands & wrists & fingers get all crampy whenever i'm working on a keyboard that isn't ergonomic/split.
am i the only one?
i would think since most of us are constantly using the keyboard we would have all adopted some sort of super keyboard that keeps us all keyboarding at the most optimum of levels.
maybe it's just me.
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Jay Contonio said 2:14AM on 7-15-2005
Holy crap! This is awesome...I don't have any other words for it...awesome. I will buy one the second they make it.
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Oliver H?d said 5:38AM on 7-15-2005
hm, this already existed in the 90ies. i cant remember who did it, or what displays were used. but i liked the idea already back then. the "ancient" idea, was more about foreign (like cyrillic) fonts. saw it on a trading show in germany and read about it.
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Sauri said 8:02PM on 7-15-2005
Subject: new keyboard
From: holland -at- CVAX -dot- IPFW -dot- INDIANA -dot- EDU
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 18:50:31 EST
Okay, I am tired of the paradigms discussion, already. Lemme throw out
something else....
In the beginning, keyboards were a display (as well as an input) device: Each
key displayed what would appear if you pressed it. Then somebody got fancy
and invented the Shift key, but the keyboard remained _fairly_ WYSIWYG: The
shifted numbers produced punctuation, but it, too, appeared on the key.
Then along came computers, and with them came lots of Shift keys (Alt, Ctrl,
Esc, &c). And all was lost.
WHAT IF somebody developed a keyboard that recaptured the display function:
When the computer is off, the keyboard is BLANK. When turned on, the keyboard
display is loaded by whatever program (or op system) the computer is using.
Thus, the A key would routinely display "A" but if the Ctrl key were pressed
and Ctrl-A meant "Abort," the keyboard display (LCD, probably) would say
"Abort." The f---ing F-keys would display WHATEVER THEY WOULD DO AT ANY GIVEN
TIME! (The COMPUTER knows what it'll do when Shift-F9 is pressed; it can damn
well tell us!)
Think of the $million$ in training that would be saved. Think of how much
easier it'd be to write manuals. Think of how happy the software writers'd be,
since they'd have to create (and sell!) new versions with keyboard drivers
built into them. The template saleshumen, of course, would have a fit; but the
rest of us'd be on Easy Street.
Any budding E.E. types out there who wanna get rich and famous?
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Bruce Grant said 7:56AM on 7-18-2005
My keyboard "iKeyPro" has already been demonstrated to a leading computer manufacturer and a keyboard manufacturer almost a year ago and is almost ready for mass production. It is patent pending and has been for some time.
We have deliberately refriained from opening our website to this point, but shortly will be online.
It displays EVERY keyboard layout for Mac/PC including most languages that are system loaded.
Call me for more info
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