Comments on: Art.Lebedev not ending the Optimus line with its current production keyboard http://www.slashgear.com/artlebedev-not-ending-the-optimus-line-with-its-current-production-keyboard-1810794/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 15 May 2012 01:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Orclev http://www.slashgear.com/artlebedev-not-ending-the-optimus-line-with-its-current-production-keyboard-1810794/#comment-38321 Orclev Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:50:37 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/artlebedev-not-ending-the-optimus-line-with-its-current-production-keyboard-1810794.php#comment-38321 I don’t know, the e-ink idea actually sounds like a good idea to me, the only challenge will be getting it lit well enough to see in the dark. For something like a keyboard that isn’t likely to change all that often, particularly a wireless model that’s going to be on a energy constraint to begin with, e-ink actually sounds like the perfect solution. True you lose the animations, and the colors on current generation e-ink are more or less restricted to grayscale, but all told a re-programmable wireless keyboard with good battery life seems a fair trade for that.

As for the giant touch screen keyboard, I don’t like that idea. With something like a keyboard the tactile feedback is really necessary and anything that doesn’t provide that is going to be really rough to use. It’s ok for something like the iPhone because your always looking at it when you use it, and you don’t actually do much typing on it anyway, but for a keyboard where you’re going to be watching the screen all the time, it’s practically the kiss of death.

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