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holy shit ya'll
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:22 am
by brinstar
wish i had $1600 to blow on a keyboardeach frickin KEY is a tiny organic LED screen that shows the key's current function. if you go on the demo page you can see how it acts-- i am particularly impressed with the Half-Life gaming button set, how awesome is that???
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:56 am
by Harrison
Yeah, this has been out for awhile.
If I ever have money to burn I'd get one just to show off my nerdiness to people lol
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:03 pm
by Drem
someone posted this a while ago. i think it's really hardcore. i want this and i want a Das Keyboard plz
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:46 pm
by Harrison
Das keyboard is hilarious.
I used to change the letters around on the keyboards in school to fuck with noobs.
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:32 pm
by Tikker
brinstar wrote:wish i had $1600 to blow on a keyboardeach frickin KEY is a tiny organic LED screen that shows the key's current function. if you go on the demo page you can see how it acts-- i am particularly impressed with the Half-Life gaming button set, how awesome is that???
I've been a touch typist for a while now, I don't really get the attraction to remappable keys
seems counterintuitive
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:06 pm
by Drem
well how much do you even use your computer for?
remapping kanji in japanese to single keys instead of lengthy three key strokes, or remapping the comma in russian to a single key would be really nice. chinese would be a lot easier, too. once the prices drop on these types of keyboards they'll probably become the norm.... i'd say within 5 or 10 years. And if you're a scientist, the ability to remap lots of scientific notation to keys would be awesome, instead of having to seperately manufacture emac boards or stuff like the space cadet etc...
remappable keys will be the future. everyone will just carry around little cards with their personal keyboard setups and just plug it into blank remappable keyboards i bet
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:24 pm
by Tikker
Drem wrote:well how much do you even use your computer for?
remapping kanji in japanese to single keys instead of lengthy three key strokes, or remapping the comma in russian to a single key would be really nice. chinese would be a lot easier, too. once the prices drop on these types of keyboards they'll probably become the norm.... i'd say within 5 or 10 years. And if you're a scientist, the ability to remap lots of scientific notation to keys would be awesome, instead of having to seperately manufacture emac boards or stuff like the space cadet etc...
remappable keys will be the future. everyone will just carry around little cards with their personal keyboard setups and just plug it into blank remappable keyboards i bet
do it all in software now for all my terminal emulators (different stuff depending on the series of cisco router/switch, juniper, alcatel, etc etc
i'm still not looking at the keyboard for that stuff (the ability to program hotkeys is one thing, having it display what each key is doing is kinda goofy, to me)
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:36 pm
by Arlos
heh, I told a female software developer friend of mine about this thing, and gave her the link, and found her response amusing:
But, but... it's not ergonomic! :p
I mean, gee, if they're gonna charge you 1600 bucks for the thing, they might as well make an ergonomic version, rite?

rofl.
-Arlos
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:59 pm
by Drem
Tikker wrote:the ability to program hotkeys is one thing, having it display what each key is doing is kinda goofy, to me)
haha i think that's just a gamer's wet dream more or less. my friends bought themselves backlight keyboards for playing in their lonely caves. they're pretty cool but it made me go out and buy some logitech keyboard that has no lights on it whatsoever as retaliation. it doesn't even have a caps lock light. i'm thinking i'll paint the keys over black and pretend i'm cool
and ya, arlos, for $1600 you'd think they'd have an ergonomic one
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:04 pm
by Tuggan
Arlos wrote:heh, I told a female software developer friend of mine about this thing, and gave her the link, and found her response amusing:
But, but... it's not ergonomic! :p
I mean, gee, if they're gonna charge you 1600 bucks for the thing, they might as well make an ergonomic version, rite?

rofl.
-Arlos
Haha, I was thinking the same thing. I can hardly type on a regular flat keyboard anymore.
Re: holy shit ya'll
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:12 pm
by Nusk
the newest definition of ergonomic keyboard is no longer the curve look... the latest in ergo is flat