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Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!

Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!A fool and his money are soon parted. nt;-)Probably has $200 worth of parts in it...OLED's ain't THAT expensive.RE: Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!It's a great idea but its over priced. In the 80's my dad started...

Tags: Keyboards, OLED Technology, Art Lebedev, keyboard, organic light-emitting diode, Optimus Corp., Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!

Your opportunity to be the first to splash out thousands of dollars on a keyboard ... one Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard has found its way onto eBay. The bidding currently stands at over $1,300 - an insane price for a keyboard (and fast...

Tags: Optimus Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, eBay Inc., Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Optimus Maximus Keyboard (Optimus Maximus Keyboard)

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Optimus Maximus KeyboardErgonomic Version?$1500 and its not even ergonomic?Worth the price?The bloody thing's not even ergonomic. I'm sorry, but a conventionally-laid out "unconventional" keyboard doesn't do it for me. Perhaps if it were able to use galvanic skin response to enhance the human-machine interface, and use an...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, Optimus Maximus Keyboard, Optimus Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-16

News to know: Best, worst Windows; iPhone halo effect; Optimus Maximus keyboard

Notable headlines:Ed Bott: The best and worst Windows versions ever. Vista Hands On #12: Manage partitions after setup.Ryan Naraine: Should Microsoft start paying for vulnerabilities? Politicians renew press for antispyware law.Intel touts security with second-gen VPro PCs.Larry Dignan: Apple’s iPhone touch screen and the big picture. The beauty of the...

Tags: Keyboards, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Optimus, TechMeme, Web, keyboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2007-03-16

Optimus Maximus - Here's what a $1,490 keyboard looks like

Optimus Maximus - Here's what a $1,490 keyboard looks likeThis reminds me, there use to be....This exotic executive "thing" like a blotter.(this was in the mid'90's)It contained a Flat screen monitor(don't remeber the size) and a secondary screen that was a Keyboard and as it was all touchscreen it did...

Tags: Keyboards, Optimus Corp., keyboard

Discussion threads 2007-03-15

Optimus Maximus - Here's what a $1,490 keyboard looks like

Well, its been years in development but Art Lebedev has finally finished development work on the 114-key color OLED organic LED Optimus Maximus keyboard. Press shots have been released at CeBIT and Ive compiled a gallery of the images here. No keyboard prototypes are present at CeBIT, just...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, Optimus, organic light-emitting diode, Maximus

Blog posts 2007-03-15

Optimus Maximus Keyboard

First look at the finalized Optimus Maximus keyboard. Here's what a $1,490 keyboard looks like.

Tags: Keyboards, Optimus Maximus Keyboard, keyboard, Optimus

Image galleries 2007-03-15

$1,200 keyboard. Nope, it isn't April 1st!

Still looking for some holiday stocking fillers … how about a keyboard? It has 103 keys and can display images on each key using OLEDs Organic LEDs. Price? If you need to ask the price, this keyboard isnt for you! Introducing the Optimus Keyboard by Art...

Tags: Lebedev, keyboard, New-Tech, Peripherals

Blog posts 2006-11-30

They're Alive (exe)

Select a word or a phrase on any Web page that you're reading and use that word/phrase to navigate further - find the dictionary definition, search for it on Google, look it up in references. Just select any text on a Web page and a menu will pop-up unobtrusively. Select...

Tags: Optimus Corp., Web Page, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management

Software downloads 2006-04-06

Mobile Operator Optimus Selects Cisco IP RAN Optimization

Optimus is deploying Cisco IP RAN optimization to reduce backhaul network traffic by up to 50 percent, cut operating expenses and to provide new services, such as Universal Mobile Telecommunication Service UMTS and High-Speed Downlink Packet Access HSDPA. One of the barriers to pervasive mobility has been tethered to developing...

Tags: Mobile, Optimization, Optimus Corp., IP, Cisco Systems Inc.

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Dishing It Out

There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...

Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy name

Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy nameJust what is "Equipt"?This name certainly does not contain any hint as to why someone would want it. Product names should be at least somewhat related to the purpose of the product.I also dont like software subscriptions. It seems that they are simply another way...

Tags: Microsoft Equipt, Microsoft Corp., lousy name, good deal, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Now I know we're in a recession

Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...

Tags: Auto Industry, Starbucks Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance

Microsoft still has the hots for Yahoo and now wants to enlist partners to win the target's search business. Yes, folks the Microhoo saga continues and boy are these two crazy kids awkward. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is still trying to airlift the search...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take

Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the converstions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-02

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilitiesIt does work!Hi Nate,I couldn't agree more! We changed our approach to application security around 1 year ago and one of the core changes was that security is as much of a defect as a functional issue. It really has made a world...

Tags: Nate, Web 2.0 vulnerability, security, Web 2.0, vulnerability, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-29

Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?

Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?sure theres competition alwaysMicrosoft is doing well & not in dire straits that it needs its founder to revive it. They have a good team in place. The transition is the most well planned transition ever known.Also recent products of Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Leadership, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium

Interesting bit of news coming out of the FIRST Conference in Vancouver today:  Five big-name IT firms have created a non-profit consortium aimed at "proactively driving excellence and innovation in security response." The group -- called ICASI Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet --...

Tags: Security Threat, Information Technology, Consortium, ICASI, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-06-26

MySpace's "data portability" initiative goes live today - prepare to be locked-in

News Corp.-owned MySpace will today officially launch its MySpace Data Availability Project, the company's previously announced so-called "data portability" initiative in which users will be able to optionally share their public profile data with participating sites, along with their MySpace photos, MySpaceTV videos and friend lists. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Data, Site, MySpace, Internet, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-26

iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs $173 to make

An article at Business Week states that the forthcoming iPhone 3G costs Apple approximately US$173 to manufacture. The estimate is based on its Bill of Materials BOM according to a preliminary "virtual teardown" conducted by iSuppli Corp. "At a hardware BOM and manufacturing cost of $173,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, iSuppli Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-24