Optimus have announced a new upcoming product, the Pultius, which is intended to be an addition rather than a replacement to your normal keyboard. Consisting of fifteen OLED keys similar in layout to that of a numeric keypad, it could be used for triggering programmes, websites or even macros for gaming or art apps.
I have a tendency to enjoy my daily blogging at very random locations throughout the house. It just depends on my mood. Typically I enjoy my desk, due to my monitor setup and my very comfortable desk chair. However, the couch occasionally wins me over and I end up in the living room with my laptop lying on my lap.
Gamers are used, by now, to manufacturers telling them they need a specific keyboard in order to unlock their maximum play potential. Sometimes that means colored keys, other times it’s easy to program macros, and occasionally – as in the case of the Wolfking Warrior XXtreme we’re looking at today – it’s a whole new layout. Like other ergonomic ‘boards, the Warrior XXtreme promises its alternative key arrangement helps your fingers work faster; more specifically, though, it’s aimed at keen FPS, RPG and RTS gamers.
Perhaps it’s unbearably geeky to get excited by a label printer, but GTD devotees with a sense of style should get a kick out of King Jim’s new Tepra SR600 Label Writer. Roughly a 10cm cube, the printer hides a monochrome screen and keyboard under its pop-up lid, while a 180dpi thermal printer takes care of the business end. Labels themselves ticker-tape out of the slot at the side and are automatically cut.
The Really Cool keyboard, is completely waterproof, saving you from replacing your keyboard after you dump your morning coffee into it. Although I think the name is a bit silly, they keyboard is kind of cool.
The laptop, from top to bottom, is covered in wood. Then there is the semi-creepy hemp bag that is either part of the laptops wooden casing or just comes with the laptop, it would be cool either way.
This is quite possibly the dumbest idea I’ve seen in a very, very long time. Essentially what this product suggests is that you lay part of this long ass adjustable strap across your laptop’s keyboard, then close it, and sling it over your shoulder leaving it open to the environment, being banged around, or worse, stolen.
It’s a basic mobile Internet device. It has a rubberized bottoms, touchscreen, and slide out full keyboard, a very simple user interface, and a stylus. On the back is the battery and a 3MP camera for taking photos.
The notebook will be rolled out as part of HCL’s MiLeap brand of HCL Leaptops. It will be running Windows XP Home, weigh less than 1kg, and have a 7-inch TFT LCD touch-screen.
For a computer as old as the IIGS this computer looks only modern. Maybe it’s the acrylic keys or the 15-inch color LCD screen. The old ass mouse brings it all back to its roots though.
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