tema ([info]tema) wrote in [info]optimus_project,
@ 2007-05-21 04:00:00
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Sunday 200
It's been a busy day.

First 200 keyboards (to be shipped December, 1st) were pre-ordered in about 12 hours.

When the section on Optimus Maximus opened, our site was almost down for the first 15 minutes. In nine hours there has been more than 100 000 unique visitors (special thanks: Slashdot and Engadget).

Some people had trouble with the payment system - we'll investigate the issues tomorrow morning, during their working hours. No need to worry - we keep track of all the orders and those who placed an order on sunday, but whose cards has not been charged, will get contacted by our store managers.

Tooling starts today.

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[info]artur_parv
2007-05-21 12:22 am UTC (link)
My congratulations Artemij!
Мои поздравления Артемий!

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Congratulations
(Anonymous)
2007-05-21 12:34 am UTC (link)
It's been a long slog - congrats.

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[info]yavuzselim
2007-05-21 03:37 am UTC (link)
Слава слава слава!

Many congratulations.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-23 05:30 pm UTC (link)
This is an English-speaking community. Post a message in another language and see it deleted.

Why does it still remain here intact?! I call for moderator's attention.

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[info]yavuzselim
2007-05-23 06:09 pm UTC (link)
Man, that's obnoxious. Ok, herewith I provide a translation for the Monoglot Community:

Hail hail hail!

And the ENGLISH sentence is, of course, in English.

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[info]vadim_kontra
2007-05-21 04:52 am UTC (link)
Wish you guys the best!

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[info]markusk
2007-05-21 06:59 am UTC (link)
Congratulations!!

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[info]beorn
2007-05-21 07:15 am UTC (link)
Are you going to make only 800 keyboards and stop the production afterwards? Or will there be more orders and deliveries after January 2008?

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[info]funkeymonky
2007-05-21 08:54 am UTC (link)
I wish I was there )))

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OS Support
(Anonymous)
2007-05-21 11:28 am UTC (link)
What about support for other os and architectures? Linux, Mac, PS3, ...

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Sell buttons in pack of twelve (or ten for metric-system-counties :-).
[info]rrr7
2007-05-21 01:48 pm UTC (link)
The keyboard is really expensive, but it sad, that

"Every button on the keyboard is easy to remove in order to clean or replace."

Most of people need only some keys to be change in real-time. What about to sell only a chassis with old static buttons for about $200 and then the single buttons for $15 per item (or in pack of six)?

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Re: Sell buttons in pack of twelve (or ten for metric-system-counties :-).
[info]_lothar_
2007-05-21 02:21 pm UTC (link)
this is planned for further releases

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Re: Sell buttons in pack of twelve (or ten for metric-system-counties :-).
[info]vrode
2007-05-22 05:44 pm UTC (link)
o rly?

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Re: Sell buttons in pack of twelve (or ten for metric-system-counties :-).
[info]keruah
2007-06-04 07:56 pm UTC (link)
yarly, rtfm

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Re: Sell buttons in pack of twelve (or ten for metric-system-counties :-).
[info]vrode
2007-06-05 08:29 am UTC (link)
fuck the hell off! it is lothar! you don't know him, it's his first game-project!

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[info]cpcat
2007-05-21 02:25 pm UTC (link)
Fine. There'll always be kind of customers that don't care how expensive the thing is when it works perfect.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-21 05:23 pm UTC (link)
just as me

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[info]mr_fa
2007-05-21 08:56 pm UTC (link)
Do you really think that OM keyboards from the first lot will work perfectly? )

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[info]cpcat
2007-05-22 04:45 am UTC (link)
They must. If they won't, the whole project will be gone in vain.

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[info]mr_fa
2007-05-22 01:13 pm UTC (link)
You are so naive :)

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-23 05:37 pm UTC (link)
Check out Cybernet ZPC-9000. It's WAY cheaper than Optimus.

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[info]mrmikey83
2007-05-23 07:40 pm UTC (link)
That ZPC is a PC inside a keyboard. What does it have to do with Optimus??

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-24 03:05 pm UTC (link)
You can type with that one too.

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[info]mrmikey83
2007-05-24 03:15 pm UTC (link)
So? You can type with the $5 keyboard that came with my parents Dell. What's your point?

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[info]michaniker
2007-05-21 06:28 pm UTC (link)
i hope i will be in the the next pre-orders.......
forget all the "stupid" who speak against the optimus project... ;-)

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-23 10:28 am UTC (link)
I think you define "stupid" more than those who speak against it.

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[info]another_pilot
2007-05-22 08:45 am UTC (link)
Congratulations!

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Amazing.
(Anonymous)
2007-05-22 11:27 am UTC (link)
I have to admit, I was overly skeptical that this product would ever hit the market, but after months of regular updates showing that this is a real product, you going through the steps with the community and being so open with everything from 'Look, we've got a PCB at last!' through to 'We've just got our first prototype key!', it's a real eye-opener as to why this project has taken so long.

It's hard for things like this to get made, period., and I hope you guys hit 'true' mass production soon. The interest is clearly there, so you've just got to figure out the economies of scale (or palm off the management to a firm that will!)

Once again, power to you! I hope to pick one of these up eventually to do my day to day programming with.

Regards,
-Steve Gray
-Cobalt Software

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Preorder
[info]http://getopenid.com/romario
2007-05-22 06:26 pm UTC (link)
You customer agreement has following words in the very end:

"Please note that the time of processing and identification of individual customers’ payments is 10–12 working days."

What does it mean exactly? That's a long time to id a payment

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Re: Preorder
(Anonymous)
2007-05-23 12:46 pm UTC (link)
I think they mean 10-12 working days.

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[info]naebu
2007-05-23 09:35 am UTC (link)
I could take the ugliness of the new caps, but the oleds themselves are just circus ugly. Especially on bigger keys (spacebar, enter).

Anyways... Better than nothing. God speed.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-24 02:20 am UTC (link)
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keyboard optimus
(Anonymous)
2007-05-29 06:59 pm UTC (link)
I'm the owner of the patent of one similar, keyboard for Spain.

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cost reduction
[info]gmiles
2007-08-23 01:08 pm UTC (link)
You could greatly bring down the cost of your keyboard by using a single resistive touch LCD screen under your transparent keys that would sit on a template of some type of foam rubber material that would allow you to drive the transparent key down to the screen which would detect the contact. Development of a USB 2.0 single touch screen would also have enormous uses in the embedded computer world.

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