Mixed meme of the day: Beatles coming to Optimus Maximus

[Austin @ Jan 16th 2008 10:06AM]

for the love of all that is right and holy, nobody program the light patterns for the High School Musical soundtrack. light-pattern-induced seizures are sure to follow. this is gonna be pokemon all over again. think of the kiddies!

[Simon @ Jan 16th 2008 10:06AM]

Thats hilarious. And oh so retarded. Sounds like an art lebdev idea!

[HAHAHA @ Jan 16th 2008 10:14AM]

interesting!

[Itsuru @ Jan 16th 2008 10:17AM]

I suppose words appearing would be good, it'd be like an expensive karaoke machine without the microphone, speakers or supplied music.
Wait- that doesn't sound so good.

[Richard @ Jan 16th 2008 10:30AM]

Is that how the lyrics will appear? How the hell am I supposed to keep up with the seemingly random flashing letters? How do I know where the word breaks are? Am I a robot? No, I'm human. Write that crap out in sentences so it's legible for me. Then drop the price of your insanely expensive keyboard so that I might purchase it and consider this to be relevant news. Thanks.

[drakono @ Jan 16th 2008 11:33AM]

The great thing about the Optimus Maximus is that it can display almost anything you want. Don't like it spelling the letters out on a QWERTY keyboard? Fine. You could also have it do this:
http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/p/0/p0c/opti.gif

[Richard @ Jan 16th 2008 11:58AM]

Cool, Engadget should have posted that one for their pic. Thanks! The price still needs to be lower though :(

[Tim @ Jan 16th 2008 11:18AM]

What the heck else are you gonna do with a $1500 keyboard?

[Eugene @ Jan 16th 2008 11:27AM]

Well, what makes you think you're actually supposed to do anything with it? It can be a luxury item (i.e. "look at my keyboard!"), a conversation piece, etc. ;-)

[Tim @ Jan 16th 2008 1:37PM]

There's no room in my life for boutique electronics. :)

[Ryan Worrell @ Jan 16th 2008 10:55AM]

WTF is up with all these random posts with no description. Someone turn down the engadget suckage please!

[Hax Or @ Jan 16th 2008 11:18AM]

Your request was denied. Please start your own tech blog if you don't like this one.

You don't like it? Don't say anything unless it's positive.

Your grammar however, was fine. Kudos!

[dramamoose @ Jan 16th 2008 11:26AM]

Actually, he almost nailed it, but no cigar. WTF starts with what. Therefore, the end of his first sentence should have been a question mark.
But I'd be willing to look that over just because he spelled all of his words right and had proper capitalization. A++.

[Jesse S @ Jan 16th 2008 12:12PM]

A+++++++++++++++ WOULD REPLY TO AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ghen @ Jan 16th 2008 12:58PM]

I love ebay =)

[L.Cyphre @ Jan 16th 2008 10:56AM]

What I would do is program someone's keyboard with I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER or THE END IS NIGH, SAVE YOURSELF! or something like that... I can imagine someone making a virus doing this.

[dlheritage @ Jan 16th 2008 11:27AM]

REDRUM, REDRUM, REDRUM

[Randy @ Jan 16th 2008 11:13AM]

Yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away....

[Jack @ Jan 16th 2008 11:13AM]

now play some cannibal corpse through it, that would be amusing

[Jonathan Bergeron @ Jan 16th 2008 11:14AM]

Wow Engadget Moderators. So I can call a user, on here, a douchebag or any number of explicit words and you don't have a problem with it. I can bash the writer of every blog post and you guys don't have a problem with it. Yet I say about some pointless tech "that's gay" and you delete my post. That seems a bit inconsistent. Why not delete every post that bashes a product, instead of picking and choosing which post to delete.

[Eugene @ Jan 16th 2008 11:24AM]

Well, I guess it's because you insult only one person when you call him/her a douchebag, but you insult millions of gay guys when you say "that's gay" (and it wasn't a compliment, was it?)

[Evan Blass @ Jan 16th 2008 1:58PM]

Yup, Eugene nailed it. Grow up, Jonathan.

[John @ Jan 16th 2008 11:59AM]

I dunno, I think it's quite a happy keyboard myself.

[Rjay @ Jan 16th 2008 11:18AM]

Great now I have to learn to read. I thought gadgets were supposed to make my life easier..

[Ghen @ Jan 16th 2008 1:00PM]

The keys can display pictures instead of the normal QWERTY layout so its all good.

[mindsnare @ Jan 16th 2008 12:45PM]

When someone creates a tetris game where you turn the keyboard sideways, then give me a call.

[superfresh @ Jan 16th 2008 11:32AM]

This is kind of boring.

I want to see someone link all the keys together so they operate as a single display, and then rock some sort of badass screensaver across the whole keyboard, like a scene from Star Wars or the Matrix, or High School Musi...er, I mean 300.

[Jesse S @ Jan 16th 2008 12:12PM]

I really this this thing was like $200.

I want one, but I just see $1200 as a waste for something like this.

[wjousts @ Jan 16th 2008 12:29PM]

Gosh, that's so much more useful than putting the lyrics on, I don't know, the screen perhaps?

[MearWolf @ Jan 16th 2008 2:10PM]

they could easily make the keys show whole words, and brighten them the words as they are sung

[Lee @ Jan 16th 2008 4:49PM]

I'll add to the gay stuff...what's with the high school musical references? pedo much