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Now this keyboard should be sold with every PowerMac!

mkrishnan said:
To be fair, the actual interview quote was: "I can hardly imagine it to be less than $200 to $300 (USD). Sounds like a lot for a keyboard, but most modern mobile phones cost about that." Which is slightly different.... 🙄

But still, like hob said, this is an amazing idea.... 🙂
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Well, I didn't quote the interview but Hardmac.com. But I agree, this makes it sound more expensive than $300.
 
Veldek said:
Well, I didn't quote the interview but Hardmac.com. But I agree, this makes it sound more expensive than $300.
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Ahhh, yeah, I know. Too many translations, probably, Russian to French to English. 😱 😉 😀 Here's hoping for it being cheap enough to make it the standard keyboard on the next 12" PB! 😀
 
wheezy said:
Wow, what a cool product, I really like how it matches the aluminum!

Also, a great informative website. I liked such information as

"Moscow is the capital of Russia."

"Our studio is located two blocks from the Kremlin." (The KGB must have been developing this and they stole the idea)

"It has a numeric keypad because we love it."

"There’s no snow in Moscow in summer."

I seriously thought of all these questions when I checked out this keyboard.
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these answers are in response to the discussions on slashdot
 
Love the idea but not for me. How often do I look at my keyboard? almost never. So if I never look at my keyboard then to what benefit would this have? I agree that it would be a good training keyboard and or maybe a cool wow factor but I also fear it could become as tacky as those light up phones that you see in the malls.
 
this could be useful to me

sometimes I have to write down analyses of deaf people's sign languages. The coding used is bloody obscure, see below for what i mean - it isn't related to the alphabet at all, not even remotely.

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Nobody is gonna make a keybord with this on the keys, the market is just too small...

so if this new keyboard could display sign notation, and from the website, it seems pretty easy to do, it would be worth buying for us Sign Language researchers 🙂

And at the other end, i could see it being useful to people working with some types of music analysis / notation that a USB piano keyboard attachment might not work with.

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I doubt it would sell for less than $500 US. Maybe more.

Having said that, if they integrated a scrub wheel with assignable buttons for all of us video/audio engineers, I would totally buy one. Sure, you can buy dedicated ProTools, Logic, or FCP keyboards--but to have a perfectly customized keyboard interface with every pro app or high-end game you own, changing on-the-fly in every new scenario, well, that is a transformational innovation.

It totally fits the Apple ethic of a brilliantly designed user interface experience.

Apple should take some of that iPod green they've banked and buy these Muscovtes completely out--lock, stock and ruble. Mac OS X Lion should have it implemented on day one for all the Apple pro apps, with an easy-to-build developer's kit to get Adobe, ProTools, and the gamers on board. The new PowerMac G5 with Color-ProKey™ technology!

The best part of it--adding this functionality to Longhorn would delay its release another two years! And you can imagine how gawd-awful that would work in that environment?!
 
Jay42 said:
Wow...when's the last time you saw *real* innovation in a keyboard? Does it produce its own light at night? How much eye strain when looking at it? Price could definately be a big deal breaker here.
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Yeah, looks like a really great idea, but it's probably pretty costly.

One other good use would be public computers that people might want to use different language keyboards on. Sort of a niche, but also probalby more affordable by, say, an internet cafe kind of place.
 
zim said:
Love the idea but not for me. How often do I look at my keyboard? almost never. So if I never look at my keyboard then to what benefit would this have? I agree that it would be a good training keyboard and or maybe a cool wow factor but I also fear it could become as tacky as those light up phones that you see in the malls.
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I think you have a very good point there, the keyboard may be cool, but fot eh majority it wouldnt be of much use,

Shadow
 
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