How useful it is now? Not very. It has some niche uses and it's a nice toy, something to show off.
In the future, tech like this may become interesting though. The ability to cheaply (This keyboard is now $15/key, if that can drop to say.... $1/key) do this means you can use it on all kinds of machines to make interfaces less cluttered, more easy to grasp etcet. A button with a changing LED under it is a lot cheaper then a touchscreen, and a probably a lot more energy efficient. And probably more durable too. If this becomes cheap, and light, who knows where this is gonna end up.
Another use mentioned in the thread so far has been professional translators, who can change their characters whenever they swap languages.
Also, should the technology ever get cheap enough, it could just become the default standard in areas where multiple languages are used many years down the line. Then again, it'd have to become 287% cheaper.
This is just dandy until you spill your orange juice in it
My heart literally seized up reading that. Every employee at my company, self included, has destroyed at least one $15 keyboard with careless drinking. When the accountant spilled pepsi on his $75 fancy keyboard that we don't keep spares for, I really, really wanted to slap him. Just once.
The minute I hear the words "$1500 keyboard" and "coffee" in the same sentence, I'm finding a new career.
It would be neat if the keys automatically updated. Say, if you have your hands off the keyboard, all the letters would be lower case, but hit shift, and the all capitalize, or if you held control, the "c" key would read "copy" and so on.
It would be neat if the keys automatically updated. Say, if you have your hands off the keyboard, all the letters would be lower case, but hit shift, and the all capitalize, or if you held control, the "c" key would read "copy" and so on.
Thats exactly the kind of stuff that its supposed to do. But is it worth 1500 to do it? I dont think so.
Id pay maybe 50-60 quid for this, no more. Its a fucking keyboard. After the novelty wears off after like a few days Im still going to be using it to type fucking words, not play with it.
1500 dollars though is pure insanity. Get a 5 dollar keyboard from amazon and then buy a fucking car to drive to the amazon warehouse to pick it up.
One of the major factors of OLED technology is the fact that "Dead Pixels" very rarely exist. As for my thinking, cool concept and really, that's all it should be. If it was to be on Newegg for $1,499.99 people would not be taking it seriously, as they are now. But think about it, these people did something totally new and somehow got it to work. Sure, "$1,500 olol" but I don't think it is fair to knock it because right now it is just too ahead of the technology curve.
It would be neat if the keys automatically updated. Say, if you have your hands off the keyboard, all the letters would be lower case, but hit shift, and the all capitalize, or if you held control, the "c" key would read "copy" and so on.
Thats exactly the kind of stuff that its supposed to do. But is it worth 1500 to do it? I dont think so.
I guess I was only aware that it would change pictures based on what app was open, not based on keypresses. If you're right, then cool, I suppose.
How fast can the screens change?
Getting keys 1-9 to display spells with global cooldown in your MMORPG of choice would almost(*) be worth it if animation was smooth.
The F-keys are all wrong. I hate when keyboards do that. You think if they're going to charge this much for a keyboard they'd at least get that part right.
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In the future, tech like this may become interesting though. The ability to cheaply (This keyboard is now $15/key, if that can drop to say.... $1/key) do this means you can use it on all kinds of machines to make interfaces less cluttered, more easy to grasp etcet. A button with a changing LED under it is a lot cheaper then a touchscreen, and a probably a lot more energy efficient. And probably more durable too. If this becomes cheap, and light, who knows where this is gonna end up.
Also, should the technology ever get cheap enough, it could just become the default standard in areas where multiple languages are used many years down the line. Then again, it'd have to become 287% cheaper.
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just the keys on the left side, and the windows key. the rest are black/white only.
Never mind that this is TOTALLY NOT WORTH THE PRICE. if it cost 1/10th, I would probably buy it.......but no, sorry.
My heart literally seized up reading that. Every employee at my company, self included, has destroyed at least one $15 keyboard with careless drinking. When the accountant spilled pepsi on his $75 fancy keyboard that we don't keep spares for, I really, really wanted to slap him. Just once.
The minute I hear the words "$1500 keyboard" and "coffee" in the same sentence, I'm finding a new career.
i thought £30 on a Saitek Eclipse was expensive, but.. i'd want this thing to wake me up with a mug of coffee and a kiss or something for that much.
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Well, for one thing, there must be millions of individual OLEDs on that thar keyboard.
It wouldn't be unreasonable to expect keyboards like this to be affordable in a few years, but it is now.
Thats exactly the kind of stuff that its supposed to do. But is it worth 1500 to do it? I dont think so.
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Fuck that shit.
Id pay maybe 50-60 quid for this, no more. Its a fucking keyboard. After the novelty wears off after like a few days Im still going to be using it to type fucking words, not play with it.
1500 dollars though is pure insanity. Get a 5 dollar keyboard from amazon and then buy a fucking car to drive to the amazon warehouse to pick it up.
TL;DR: It's not for you!
I guess I was only aware that it would change pictures based on what app was open, not based on keypresses. If you're right, then cool, I suppose.
Getting keys 1-9 to display spells with global cooldown in your MMORPG of choice would almost(*) be worth it if animation was smooth.
Also it's dissapointing how crap it looks in comparison to the first concept images
Hahahaha, someone should steal it from you if you were dumb enough to bring it.