Art Lebedev taking wares to brick and mortar
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 11th 2008 7:31AM
posted Apr 11th 2008 7:31AM
[Thanks, Dmitriy]
posted Apr 11th 2008 7:31AM
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They should make each floor tile contain an OLED screen, even though no one looks at the floor when they walk. And then they could charge you $50 to get in. The Retailus Maximus!
Geography for the win!
They actually have a lot of cool stuff besides that dumb keyboard:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/id/
Yeah but if you buy something they'll never actually ship it to you. Like the Verbarius clock which has been delayed for months.
That is the price one pays for announcing products that they haven't even started working on.
For example: Announcing the shiney new time machine (which can take you back in time!!!) when all I have is a little painting I made in MS Paint.
How much do you want for that? Sounds interesting.
AFAIK Verbarius has been released over a year ago. It's currently out of stock, not delayed.
Well tell that to the impostor who sent me the email saying:
"Do you remember that Verbarius clock you ordered with the ship date of March 31? Well, March 31 = June 15."
Really? When did you order it? Was the e-mail from art.lebedev? I hoped they'd be decent enough to call things as is, without sinking to crap like this.
What the heck is the Vector? whatever it is, im sure it has OLED screens, and is very expensive.
vector - http://store.artlebedev.ru/office/vector/
you know there is an english version?
http://store.artlebedev.com/office/vector/
I must have missed something. They really expect people to pay $250 for a bent piece of plastic?!?! It's not even functional. man...
You missed your glasses, that was rubles. It is 9 green ones.
They are aware of what BM stands for here in the States right?
At any rate, the Optimus Maximus is one of those products that I would really sh*t myself over. At least if someone bought it for me...
Tackboy!
the russian C is an english S
so, it's taSk votch
The Russian text says that the stores will have different names in each city, since Lebedev hates all rules of branding and trade...
And I found this link -
http://store.artlebedev.ru/offline/y/
It says that this will be for the store in Rostov.
Ellianth -
That vector thing was 250 rubles - about 9 bucks.
In post-Soviet Russia, Art Lebedev stores come to you!