Gizmodo: mini 3

Art Lebedev Designing Wireless Optimus Mini 3 3.0

Jason Chen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:57:10 EDT

Art Lebedev and his Lebedevites are hard at work designing a follow-up to the Optimus Mini 3, a smaller, three-buttoned version of the Maximus keyboard we saw at CES. Here's what they're thinking: wireless, possibly Bluetooth, maybe AC-powered. People use this to control PowerPoint presentations (good idea, you can see what's coming up before others do) and would like to have it not tethered to the computer. No actual renders of prototypes yet, but Art says they're coming soon. [Optimus Blog]

Optimus Mini 3 SideShow Driver Alpha Version

Jason Chen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:30:07 EDT

Those of you with the Optimus Mini 3—a.k.a. pretty much the only thing they've ever produced—will be interested in this. Optimus has just released an early alpha version of the Windows SideShow driver. For those unfamiliar with Vista's SideShow feature, hit that link, but basically it's an interface to display Windows Vista Gadgets on an external device.

The driver's alpha, which means all you get is black text on a white background, but the groundwork seems to be there. Pretty soon you'll be pressing buttons like a pro on your Mini 3. – Jason Chen

OM3 Windows SideShow driver [Optimus Blog]

Optimus Mini 3 Comes in Another Box

Jason Chen — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:15:20 EST

Epiphan, a video signal processing, broadcasting, recording, and printing company, has worked with Optimus to put the latter's Mini 3 keyboard into one of the former's boxes.

Now instead of selling the Mini 3 separately as a control scheme (which they've been doing), Epiphan's integrating it into their own unit for both display and control. Although we probably wouldn't buy the Mini 3 solo, having it integrated into keyboard would be totally tubular. – Jason Chen

OM3 Usage [Optimus Blog via Slashgear]