Warning: don't spill any liquids on any keyboards because this is stupid and voids any warranties.
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Optimus Maximus Coffee Spill Test
Optimus Maximus survives first recorded coffee spill thanks to the construction of the upper tray.
Warning: don't spill any liquids on any keyboards because this is stupid and voids any warranties.
Warning: don't spill any liquids on any keyboards because this is stupid and voids any warranties.
Anonymous
August 1 2008, 17:38:46 UTC 3 years ago
Anonymous
August 1 2008, 20:31:05 UTC 3 years ago
Anonymous
August 1 2008, 20:40:49 UTC 3 years ago
Anonymous
August 1 2008, 21:37:38 UTC 3 years ago
Anonymous
August 1 2008, 21:42:39 UTC 3 years ago
Wow...
Someone actually bought that awful thing?Lets see it go through the dishwasher and still work, like any $10 keyboard would.
Anonymous
August 2 2008, 02:03:44 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
I got my keyboard for $3.99 at the thriftstore... still has the sticker on it... I bet it works just as good as that scamboard... I'm not afraid to pour beer on my keyboard.. wouldn't be the first time :)Anonymous
August 2 2008, 02:07:05 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
scamboard? because it is out of your price range makes it a scam? you're a fucking moron...Deleted comment
Anonymous
August 2 2008, 13:19:39 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
yo clearly don't understand the economies of scaled production. Thanks to the cut and paste world we live in you've come to expect an unreasonably low price point because the companies you buy from all get their parts from the same place and then sell 100,000's of units therefore reducing the cost.Funny thing is, in terms of profit vs cost, those cheap keyboards are guaranteed to be a bigger scam.
There's a reason early adopters pay more and it rarely has much to do with a scam.
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Anonymous
August 2 2008, 15:21:54 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
its no good to me as my hands got blown off in FUCKING IRAQ......Anonymous
August 2 2008, 16:54:49 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
then how did you type that?? or have they finally perfected voice recognition?????Anonymous
August 2 2008, 17:04:50 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
no uAnonymous
3 years ago
Anonymous
August 6 2008, 12:52:47 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
If you're an american and to Iraq to do the mass murderer, George Bush's dirty work, then you deserve to have your hands blown off as well as all your other bits. Shame scum like you are still alive.Anonymous
3 years ago
August 4 2008, 00:20:02 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
So, by imaginative extension of your statement, all nice things are scams. Sigh... you're simply ignorant of the fact that you are not the target audience of this product. Think: Production shop or individual artist (graphic, video, still). This product is geared towards increasing productivity in a multiplatform workplace. Simple as that. It's expensive because it's made by a design firm for a small target client group. It doesn't need to be ergonomic because it's not a typing keyboard - a typing keyboard doesn't even need letters printed on the keys (see: DOS keyboard).If you don't understand a product's intentions and target consumers, then you have absolutely no right to criticize it. It would be like me critiquing a John Mayer album by means of looking at the album art.
PS - Advertising scamming isn't hoaxing. It's a method of selling a product so that the company who created the product can break even on the development and manufacturing, and hopefully cut a profit so that they can create better revisions of said product and expand their product line. Hoaxing is telling people that Bigfoot lives in your backyard. Scamming is telling people that they can see him for $5.
Anonymous
August 2 2008, 22:58:46 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
You're a fucking moron if you pay over a 1000 dollars for a keyboard.August 3 2008, 05:28:24 UTC 3 years ago
Re: Wow...
Or rich, in which case you may be a kind of genius.August 2 2008, 16:53:40 UTC 3 years ago
To those that say this keyboard is useless.
Lets say you are traveling abroad and only know one language. For the sake of argument lets say this language uses a form of kanji. You are computer literate but have only ever used keyboards in your native language. Your visiting the Olympics and see an internet kiosk. Normally you wouldn't bother to check but you note a lot of different people using this one. So you walk over to check it out. Walking up to it it isn't every impressive. Embedded keyboard. Screen, embedded trackball. But you just know the keyboard layout will be wrong so you look at it and indeed it is. A it is in a different text that you can handle and this most likely means that the layout is different too. It will take you forever to use this. But wait. Off to the side is that a illuminated button next to a flag. Hey look there is my countries flag. I wonder.So you hit the button next to your flag and watch in amazement as the screen changes to your language and text, AND the keyboard also changes to your native layout AND text on the keys. HOLY CRAP you say to yourself. This is the perfect international communications device.
As brought to you through the innovative application of technology. Specifically technology brought about by the makers of the Optimus keyboard.
Still think the technology is useless?
Anonymous
August 2 2008, 22:07:55 UTC 3 years ago
Re: To those that say this keyboard is useless.
1. Last time I checked, human languages were open source.2. You can do all that on a touchscreen without a $1500 keyboard or any assistance from the Optimus Maximus ppl.
3. If you wanna blow $1500 on a fancy keyboard it's a free country. If you are compelled however, to justify it to anonymous idiots on the internet it makes me suspect that just maybe you're still kinda trying to justify it to yourself.
Seolta
Anonymous
August 2 2008, 22:24:05 UTC 3 years ago
Re: To those that say this keyboard is useless.
A $1500 keyboard in a public kiosk, yeah right! Have you even thought of a screen keyboard that it's for free, handles all languages, and can be easily updated; it's anti-ergonomic but it serves the purpose, way better that your "join the world" with an expensive keyboard at every kiosk idea.Anonymous
August 3 2008, 09:15:47 UTC 3 years ago
The same reason why some people might pay millions for a supercar. I don't think owners of those things use it primarily for doing their shopping.... You'd be an idiot to think so.
Just like how you're an idiot for comparing this keyboard to a standard keyboard.
Anonymous
August 30 2008, 09:06:23 UTC 3 years ago
People spend half a million dollars on a Hummer just to drive to the grocery store ALL THE TIME... in fact, I've never seen a Hummer with dirt on it outside of promotional photos.
All sort of people who don't need this keyboard will buy it, in fact I'd assume most of the people who've bought one have no real need for it and bought it simply as an aesthetically pleasing novelty.
Of the people I can think of who'd see a legitimate use for it, none would be able to afford it or justify its expense... A good friend of mine is a graphic designer, he's paid $20/hr... It would take him saving over 300 hours of time before this thing would recoup its cost, and considering it only really saves you a second or so at a time, it would take many, many years before something like this could be beneficial or economically feasible to a professional.
Anonymous
September 1 2008, 19:06:29 UTC 3 years ago
Water
Spilt a fair load of water all over the number pad area and mine survived nicely. I did turn it off and un-plug it immemdiately and let it dry in the sun for two days though. Deffo worth the wait!Anonymous
July 21 2009, 17:16:10 UTC 2 years ago
Anonymous
August 14 2009, 20:14:15 UTC 2 years ago
sweet keyboard
Hi my name is brandon downs and i was wondering if u guys ever thought putting a intergreted finger print scanner on the keyboard...also what would be a good idea is to have a folding web cam from the back with facial intergretd softwre for the altimate security keyboard