Optimus Maximus minutiae: Key Remover shown
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 23rd 2007 11:47PM
posted Oct 23rd 2007 11:47PM
posted Oct 23rd 2007 11:47PM
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Hell... I would pay $1500 for that piece of sexiness right there.
I use a paper clip (specifically, the official iPhone paper clip) to remove my keys.
you probably wouldn't if your keyboard cost $1500 and each key was an OLED display.
Meh, I'll stick with my Microsoft Natural keyboard.
Just let your fingernails grow for 4 months...
Does anyone actually care about the (Optimus) Maximus keyboard?
I did care over a year ago...
BTW, does anyone make a full size touch screen keyboard? That would have been a lot cheaper.
Optimus Schmoptimus
Why would you remove the keys from a 1500 dollar keyboard full of OLEDs?
For platinum plated OLED's...duh.
And the characters are made of diamond! Except that defeats the purpose.
I kinda hate any person who has $1500 to waste on a keyboard.
Why show off a trifling tidbit? Makes people think the product actually exists. All we've seen are 3d renders and a smug-looking Art Lebedev sitting with his hands on a bunch of solid-colored blocks we are supposed to believe are fully-functional OLED displays.
How about this...
A full-size touch-screen keyboard, then construct the physical keys on top of the touch-screen, except each key would be a glass lens. With a light-tight keyboard case, only the glass-lens-keys would reflect each image from the touch-screen.
This should be cheaper then making 101 OLED screen-keys.
to show how old this concept is now, back during the conceptual design process, they were touting games could be taken advantage of with the keys, and showing off Quake 3 related keyboard OLEDS.
does anyone even play Quake 3 anymore?
Can you guys set up a separate Engadget site for this keyboard so I don't have to read about it every month?
It's good to know we're keeping up with bits of plastic that come in a box no one can afford when posts about the Samsung T10 don't even specify a release date when the product had been in stores for weeks.
Yay now i can use the key remover to gauge my eyes out and not read about this stupid keyboard every month.
Hey.. It's pretty simple... DON'T FUCKING READ THE ARTICLES IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THEM.
It would save the rest of us from having to listen to you idiots whine all the time.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Now what am I gonna do with my screwdriver?
Well as someone who has put their hard-earned down for this thing, I'm sorta pitying everyone else having to wade through these posts.
Then again, HELL YEAH!!! And I'm gonna rub your faces in it when (if) it turns up!
On a serious note though, in response to comments about a touch-screen board, it's b een tried, but with no tactile response, it really sucks. I've got one of those laser keyboards and it's the same.
Engadget editors have such bad grammar. Case in point:
"'Course, one (read: us) may wonder"
More like,
"'Course, one (read: WE) may wonder"
Do you say, "We may wonder," or "Us may wonder"? Honestly.
ehhhhhh... maybe.
I must see what tape they're going to use on the packaging. I hope it will be an optimus maximus branded tape, otherwise what's the point.
Even more importantly though, how is the box itself going to be held together - I mean are we talking superglue, or some silicon based compound, or something else? I hope whatever they use is going to have an optimus maximus branded flavor and taste, mmmmmm, optimus maximus glue.
God, Engadget. Stop egging them on by actually reporting this kind of stupid stuff from their press camp. Honestly. "It's Tuesday, let's go take close up snaps of the next part we see and do a press release."
For crying out loud.
I want this penis-extender for my boyfriend.