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Re: Best Keyboard Ever!
[Re: fastlane69]
#177381
01/11/08 18:24
01/11/08 18:24
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Red Dwarf
Michael_Schwarz
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If you can display any text on your keys then you could easily switch between complex software tools like Blender, Lightwave, XSI and you dont have to wonder again and again the key konfigurations. You just switch the display and you can read what button activates the rotate function etc.
Ahhhh, finally someone who gets this. Dont' you see? This is the future of keyboards... well maybe not this exact model, but the idea that the keys are monitors too allows for what frank said and more. Imagine making a game like "whack a mole" where you have to search out the "red" key on your keyboard. Or how about a strategy game where a ECM attack will have the effect of scrambling your keyboard for a few seconds. Or how about changing the language character set and not having to guess which key is the diacritical "n"!
Laugh all you want... mostly for the reason Frank said but for many more, I personally feel this is the way that all keyoards are going to go... you'll see... you'll all see... and then, you'll be sorry... oh yeah, REAL sorry....
hey, i like it too - its just, I've seen it one year ago already, only that now its released 
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Re: Best Keyboard Ever!
[Re: Joozey]
#177385
01/12/08 02:42
01/12/08 02:42
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SC, United States
xXxGuitar511
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...because she doesn't care or understand it, she's just there to look pretty. I think the keyboards allright. If it became popular, then you could probably make some cool games with it  . But it's also more crap running on your system, and distracting you...
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Re: Best Keyboard Ever!
[Re: PHeMoX]
#177388
01/12/08 16:22
01/12/08 16:22
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Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Machinery_Frank
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It is easy to check out:
Just try to work in the dark at your pc.
I learned to type with 10 fingers without looking at the keyboard.
But I realize that I do look at the keyboard while playing games or while modelling. So I have problems to work in the dark and I always switch a light on if I work at nights.
So it still makes sense to illuminate or display keys. But my vision is more than only colors and letters. There could be little icons for special functions and much more just changing while you change your software. So you can learn a software faster and at the end you might not need them but it feels better.
There is also a big difference if you work only with one software or with dozens of them. If I program with Delphi then I know all my shortcuts and dont have to use the menu or the mouse.
But when I switch between Lightwave, ZBrush, Bodypaint3d, Milkshape, Blender, WED, MED, Torque, Beyond Virtual, C4 and Fragmotion then I never have the chance to remind all those keys. And I need all those tools to create and test artworks for my customers.
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