http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/ Engadget Comments for Optimus mini three delayed until August, bumped to $160 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/
But... I just want a nice quality keyboard, backlit and oled or e-paper key tops... is that too much to ask? They could still include their 3 buttons on it somewhere.]]>May 17th 2006 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/
Guess they want you to buy a new one every year.]]>May 17th 2006 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/]]>May 17th 2006 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/
No seriously, what is it good for? For $160 you can buy a full 15" TFT screen.]]>May 17th 2006 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/14/optimus-wireless-keyboard-wears-its-functions-on-its-keys/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_keyboard

Apparently most of you don't know what the full optimus keyboard is. This is basically just a three key set of that, albeit overpriced.

And no, it won't die on the exact 100,000th press. I hope you were being sarcastic. Manufacturers are required to give an average lifetime.]]>May 17th 2006 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/
This 3-button thing is a pointless waste of money. What does this mean? I can create three shortcuts to commonly used programs or tasks - provided I have this thing plugged in and on my desk next to my keyboard?

The keyboard is sweet. But this 3-button thing is a solution looking for a problem. ]]>May 17th 2006 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/
Also, everyone who originally saw the keyboard and said "wow! I'd pay, like, $100 for that!" - you look even dumber now than you did then. There's no way an actual keboard will sell for less than $700-1000. And as for this thing, when it's eventually released it will end up about as popular as that Griffin Powermate - cool, but overpriced and not very useful for most pepole.]]>May 17th 2006 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/"CTRL", "ALT" and "DEL"

- or -

"ANY KEY", "ANY KEY", "ANY KEY" ? :)]]>May 17th 2006 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/
There is no real problem in making the optimus keyboard, but making it reliable enough to function for several years as someone's keyboard would result in a device costing five to ten thousand dollars. There are probably people out there prepared to spend that kind of money but probably not enough to make a good business case for producing them.]]>May 17th 2006 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/
Anyways, Design.ru has designed many things other than Optimus keyboard, and let me tell you this. None of it will see the light of day.

take XOX for example

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

This is a wonderful notebook designed by Art Lebedev. There were so much hipe in 2002 about this computer. It never shipped. just like the Colorshift line of everyday houseware

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

But the rub is this. We are right now talking about his studio. This for lebedev is mission accomplished. They are a ad/design studio. they come up with photoshop designs that are strictly conceptual. nothing more.

take a look at this car stereo.

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/radiotehnika/ar-50/car_audio/

it's never been made. not a single one. NONE OF HIS DESIGNS MAKE IT.

anyone read "homozapiens?" this guy should be the lead character in that book.
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www.design.ru]]>May 17th 2006 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 17th 2006 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/May 18th 2006 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/
Even though everyone knows how Russia has totally established itself as a high-tech center of industry.]]>May 18th 2006 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/optimus-mini-three-delayed-until-august-price-bumped-to-160/Lebedev is #1 figure in design not only in Russia but also half of Europe]]>Dec 9th 2007 9:00PM