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  1. Optimus by bigwavejas · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Discussing Logitech's New Gaming Mice

    Logitech definitely isn't the first company to consider a keyboard which can be used for gaming. I'm really excited about: http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

  2. Re:The most important feature... by toph42 · · Score: 1 · on Review of Apple's "Mighty Mouse"
    Point is "how to label the buttons if the user can -- and will -- reassign them?"

    Just like the Optimus Keyboard! That would be sweet, huh?

  3. Re:Apple Innovates Again by hector_uk · · Score: 1 · on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse"

    It's about as innovative as a keyboard that has no letters, so that you can switch between standard and dvorak layouts. yeah it is, take a look at this http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

  4. Re:What would be really badass... by Tyrathect · · Score: 1 · on Update on the Optimus Keyboard
    Two things bother me about its design, though. One, the Enter key. The enter key is the most important key; why is it that every other company thinks they can change it and it won't bother people? My enter key is a one-row two-column rectangle to the left of the apostrophe, and that's the way I like it. On the layout they show, the Enter key is a big 2x2 rectangle, and they put, of all things, a backslash key and a blank key where it should have been. I suppose I could remap it, but there's no reason for that.


    The Where once was a comma article on the site explains that standard keyboard layouts are not wide enough to comfortably accomodate the length of the Russian alphabet.
  5. Yes (Re:Can I use it with Linux?) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Update on the Optimus Keyboard

    From the site at http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/answer s/

    "It will be OS-independent (at least it can work in some default state with any OS)"

    and

    "It will be an open-source keyboard, SDK will be available"

    Next time you can just read the article and the site, assuming you can get to it. ;^)

  6. Re:Link to initial by paulius_g · · Score: 1 · on Update on the Optimus Keyboard

    Article is: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/ 14/1335215&tid=126&tid=159&tid=227

    Link is: http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

    Cheers,
    Paulius

  7. Re:You can tell they're replying to Slashdot. by garcia · · Score: 1 · on Update on the Optimus Keyboard

    This picture of the keyboard shows a Firefox icon on the left side. Someone had complained the last time this was Slashvertised that they wouldn't use a keyboard that had an IE icon on it.

    I guess they listened ;-)

  8. Re:This is a joke, right? by Dorothy+86 · · Score: 1 · on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To

    This might interest you. It's kind of what you're looking for, I'm sure it could be programmed to do exactly what you're wanting.

  9. OLED keyboards by Dracos · · Score: 1 · on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To

    Aw, somebody already did get to that.

  10. keys for the optimus keyboard by backslashdot · · Score: 1 · on Fujitsu Debuts Bendable Electronic Paper

    How about using this "paper" as the top of the keys on the optimus keyboard rather than OLED?

    Remember the link/story from yesterday?

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

  11. There are possibilities by Underholdning · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Fujitsu Debuts Bendable Electronic Paper

    There are a lot of applications for a technology that can change what is printed. Check out this keyboard for instance

  12. Re:Where's The Blog by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 3, Funny · on Independence Day for Transformers Live Action

    So, how long before we get Optimus Prime's blog up on that site!

    As soon as he figures out how to transform his optimus keyboard?

  13. Re:Good idea, really? by tommertron · · Score: 1 · on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys

    I just hope it's not put into production by the weirdoes who invented it.

  14. Re:Good Idea, Bad Price by KanSer · · Score: 1 · on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys

    They also make the coolest desktop backgrounds ever.

    http://www.artlebedev.com/posters

    Russian design geeks with a bar code fetish. And a rather flighty motto that I like; "Design will save the world."

    Maybe in Soviet Russia...

  15. Re:a couple of questions before buying by Adrilla · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys

    These guys are obviously big mac fans. Itunes, quicktime, plus if you look at the mouse that's designed for a mac. But I'd love this for photoshop and music programs. The big problems being having the program manufacturers map out programs for such a rare keyboard (assuming it ever made it to the public).

  16. Re:Good Idea, Bad Price by Otter · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys
    They do seem to make some real stuff, some of which is pretty sweet looking. (Although $125 for a whitebaord with a clock in the middle is a bit over my budget.)

    At any rate, I'm pleased to see people catching on that the keyboard isn't real, especially after the 1000 post argument a few days ago over a joke about executing virus writers...

  17. Re:a couple of questions before buying by Mr.+Spontaneous · · Score: 1 · on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys

    yeah, look at that:
    http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/keyb_0 01.jpg

  18. Re:a couple of questions before buying by Mr.+Spontaneous · · Score: 1 · on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys

    http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/keyb_0 02.jpg

    the bottom left key (barely shown in the pic) looks like it has the firefox logo.

  19. The keyboard's cool... by lpangelrob · · Score: 1 · on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys
    The keyboard is cool... what's with the mouse?

    It looks like something newbies would hold up to their computer screen and try to point to stuff, only to wonder why said mouse doesn't work that way.

  20. Licensing/Implications? by shadowknot · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys
    If anyone reading works for Logitech or some other big peripheral manufacturer please let your R&D department know about this and maybe they can license the design and technology from the good people at art.lebedev.

    But seriously this technology could have huge implications for the future of peripheral manufacturing (on the high-end at least) purely because you can have it as QWERTY, AZERTY, DVORAK or any other english, arabic, cyrillic, sanscrit, klingon or other layout!

    For the cheapskates there's always Das Keyboard!

  21. Re:Finding Nemo by bobbozzo · · Score: 1 · on New Marine Species, Dragonfish Eats Lanternfish

    I believe the fish in Nemo was an AnglerFish.
    Similar looking, but they have their "lamp" above their heads.

    There's a nice painting of one here. More resolutions here.

  22. Re:Finding Nemo by bobbozzo · · Score: 1 · on New Marine Species, Dragonfish Eats Lanternfish

    I believe the fish in Nemo was an AnglerFish.
    Similar looking, but they have their "lamp" above their heads.

    There's a nice painting of one here. More resolutions here.

  23. Re:Applications in lost good recovery by Kaz+Riprock · · Score: 1 · on An ID Number for Everything

    Some art wouldn't exist without them...

  24. Good steganography by Pseudonymus+Bosch · · Score: 1 · on Barcodes: The Number of the Beast

    The photo (is it a real photo?) "New Windows" by Sergey Pronin could be a very clever example of steganography. Who would read there a barcode.

    But I suspect that after you send the first 2400 pictures of steamy windows to your partner, the authorities will start investigating.

  25. It's in the bones ... the bones never lie by adzoox · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Barcodes: The Number of the Beast
    I wonder if the randomness of nature does have words to speak? Take this pic for example from the article. I wonder if those patterns from the shade of tress on the snow if converted to barcodes would vaguely spell something out?

    My title to the post makes me think of shamen. Shamen throw bones to tell fortunes and future events. In the Bible they cast urem and thumen to determine selection of elders and clerics. I wonder if either of those are TRUELY read like barcodes or whether Shamen and Biblical figures made things up to suit the task at hand or the situation.

    I had turned my name into a barcode a long time ago after watching THX 1138. They all had barcodes on them that told their names. I have my barcode printed onto a laminated card in my wallet. If I can think of it, I scan it in different stores. If read by a Walmart Barcode scanner I am a bouncy ball from the toy department 99cents.