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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.
Complicated story. $1500 keyboard. Are they late with the delivery or late for April Fools Day?
they also have another nice project in the works... the Optimus Upravlator
they should think to introduce the Optimus Upravlator to Diebold, ES&S, Sequioa and the other voting machine manufacturers
The Optimus Upravlator seems to have ample space on each key to display a candidate's name directly on each button ( and left-right scroll arrows maybe on the bottom left and bottom right keys, if the list is longer than the available keys can display ).
Moreover, for voting machines you don't need all the electronics for five functions on a single button, one electrical contact per button might be enough, or keep all the electromechanical contacts on a button, for redundancy and button balancing, but wire them together.
This would solve the problems they have with touch screen voting machines that constantly need re-aligning the touchscreen with the display contents. Columbia alum Jack Shephard tries to call Kate in flash-forwards off the island.
You would not end up with the machine selecting the wrong candidate, a different one than the one you tried to highlight on the screen.
It's called the Command key, you tool. U+2318 in Unicode. Not the Apple key, not the Option key, not even the Control key. Command.
do you often pay $1400 for a handjob?
First of all, I've never "freaked" at remembering game keys. And those cardboard layouts you're talking about, I don't believe I've seen one of those since Wordperfect was DOS based or my old A-10 Tank Killer game (keeping with the spirit of this thread - available for play at Gametap - www.gametap.com) dominated my days.
Second, if you still look at your keyboard to see what you're typing...maybe you should go back to the DOS version of Wordperfect.
Third, take your fucking advertising somewhere else. You all realized you're going to take a bath on this thing and you're trying to bail water out with a spork.
And why in the hell is the word in my image confirmation "incest"?
something is wrong with the average slashdotter. Whenever someone posts saying "Yeah, x is nice, but I've been using Y for a while and I like it for the same reasons." some asshole always pipes up with "LOL URA SHILL ROFL FUCK OFF SLASHVERTIZMNT LULZ"
Honestly, it wasn't like this 2+ years ago. What's the deal?
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.