Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In - Gizmodo Comments

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

rimplestultskin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:07:14 EST

macbook air who?

if i'm gonna overpay for a laptop because it's fashionable, baby optimus pwns unneeded thinness.

rimplestultskin

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Pensador — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:52:10 EST

No. That is all.

Pensador

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

JoOngle — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:32:32 EST

Imagine the viruses you could give the laptop user...

...schizophrenic keys!

Now it´s ..QWERTYUIOP
Oh noes....QWERYTIUPO
Bollocks...UYTREWQIOP

We could call it the "Enigma Crypto Keyboard" keys that change according to an algorithm! Wee!

JoOngle

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

NE1 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:11:00 EST

@Kingteddybear:

That's easy. The ANY key!

NE1

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Kingteddybear — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:27:08 EST

What happens when the laptop's OS is working fine, for once, and the OLED drivers fritz and start randomly reassigning key mapping? What key will you hit?

Kingteddybear

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

gamecrazychris — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:37:11 EST

If I was going to spend a rediculous amount of money on a laptop I'd want that keybord to be included.

gamecrazychris

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

hakubak — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:32:55 EST

Ah. So when I get tired of having a lowsy typing experience at my desk, I can have a lowsy typing experience on the road. At least I'll still be able to have my lesbian sex hot-key assigned.

Oh yeah, and by the time this hits the streets, USB won't exist anymore.

hakubak

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Lestat — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:22:46 EST

Going to be a wonderful 9000$ vaporware laptop. Yay!

Lestat

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

wizzledizzle — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:22:11 EST

I bet the keyboard would end up looking like crap, just like with the maximus keyboard, concept was a cream dream but in actuality shit!

wizzledizzle

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Ben — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:34:32 EST

Have I told you guys about my concept laptop? It's got a grenade launcher built in!

Ben

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:32:38 EST

A laptop with the fruitiest keyboard ever and a name like an imitation Transformer?

Pass.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

nutbastard — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:49:27 EST

@frndlybnny:
nah, finger cancer just means your digits have love bumps (love bumps, tumors, what's in a name?)

nutbastard

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

frndlybnny — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:45:16 EST

@nutbastard: 2 things:

me + finger cancer= no sex life.

Also: dildo Thursdays? Great, thanks for making me homesick for the one gay bar back home.

frndlybnny

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

matto — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:44:44 EST

@workingonyourinvoice: Head over to Engadget, where every day is dildo day!

matto

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

workingonyourinvoice — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:31:55 EST

@nutbastard: It would have to be dildo Saturday or Sunday for us office drones to not miss out on the fun.

workingonyourinvoice

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

nutbastard — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:20:12 EST

@CaseyG:
also the dildos - giz ought to have dildo thursdays or something.

nutbastard

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

CaseyG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:59:37 EST

@BLAKELEY: If Apple put out an Optimus-equipped Macbook, could Gizmodo write the Ultimate Article and cease forever?

That would be a real shame. I'd miss the occasional "retro/steampunk" article.

CaseyG

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

mangochutney — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:50:01 EST

Estimated T-minus time before Art.Lebedev "announces the release" of a laptop with the patented Optimus Keyboard design: 7 days

Estimated T-minus time until a working unit is produced:
7 years + ...

WARNING!
Error detected...
Cause of error found:
Vaporware likelyhood = 100%

mangochutney

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

v12spd — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:43:12 EST

That would make up for the lack of a backlit keyboard on my TZ (pictured in the concept) quite well. And short of two fingered scroll make me feel fantastic about my switch to TZ from MBP.

v12spd

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

nutbastard — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:38:28 EST

@workingonyourinvoice:
your second idea is solid gold man.

nutbastard

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

workingonyourinvoice — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:35:59 EST

I'll buy it when the keys can collectively render the surface of a pond with ripples emanating from the keys I press, and interacting with each other correctly. Or maybe the keyboard has a background of cement, and each time I press a key, it makes a crater and sends particles of cement flying, like The Hulk typing on a cement keyboard.
That would be awesome.

workingonyourinvoice

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

MasterSauce — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:07:46 EST

@cumbirnard: Yes. Yes it is. This is a close second only.

MasterSauce

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

nutbastard — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:06:34 EST

@Ybother:
ive often wondered why one can't get a keyboard with the keys written in that radioactive stuff they use in high end watches, what is that stuff...? ah yes, Luminox... why can't we get that? Cancer be damned!

nutbastard

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Parker. A — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:02:41 EST

this would look great with the unicornized background...

Parker. A

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

cumbirnard — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:02:26 EST

Most ridiculously overpriced laptop ever? Isn't that already the Macbook Air?

cumbirnard

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Ybother — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:00:05 EST

It would help in dark situations if the keys are backlit . Of course it would suck the whole juice out oof the battery withing minutes - but that's a different story.

Ybother

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

KoRnholio8 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:45:55 EST

then lets forget all this nonsense and get those thought-recognition machines working....

KoRnholio8

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

legacye — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:41:02 EST

@BLAKELEY:

Haha. This laptop would have matched Apple's old logo perfectly.

legacye

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

legacye — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:40:19 EST

@KoRnholio8:

Have you ever actually tried typing on a touchscreen with your fingers?.

They'd get jacked up in under 5 minutes. The reason people are still using keyboards and why such expensive options as the Maximus are even thinable in times like these are because it requires significantly less energy to hit a key on a keyboard (OLED or otherwise than it is to hit your finger against a glass or plastic screen.

legacye

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

nutbastard — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:39:00 EST

actually an e-ink keyboard wouldn't be bad - and wouldn't suck so much battery juice, either. And i believe they're working on color e-ink displays as we speak...

nutbastard

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

nutbastard — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:37:58 EST

@KoRnholio8:
no haptic feedback == sucky

nutbastard

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

KoRnholio8 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:24:11 EST

isn't it cheaper to just build one big touchscreen and render the whole keyboard on it?

and yea... battery "life"

KoRnholio8

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

HJTravels — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:18:10 EST

Wow that keyboard is totally gay, like really, lol.

HJTravels

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

BLAKELEY — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:10:14 EST

All it's missing...

BLAKELEY

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Munch the BanNail — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:08:56 EST

Walking someone thru the steps to do something on that keyboard could get interresting.

Hold down Barney + Jenna Jameson and then tap Richard Nixon. Okay, now it should ask you for your user name and password. You're kinda screwed at that point, since I don't remember what each letter key looks like, but after you've entered the info, press the doggy-style key

Munch the BanNail

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

jbhitter24 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:08:34 EST

mmm battery life.

jbhitter24

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

daftrok — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:08:25 EST

SOOOO not worth 1000+ bucks. So not worth 500+ bucks. In fact, it would be a stretch making this a 100+ upgrade. Also SSD actually have a purpose: they take less power, last longer and are generally faster. This just changes lower case letters to upper case letters when you hold down shift..soo...no...

daftrok

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

DaOtter — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:06:20 EST

Taste the rainbow... or something... :3

DaOtter

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

Cisco-Kid — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:04:25 EST

It certainly seems... friendly.

Cisco-Kid