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AlphaGrip bulbous UMPC concept: more buttons than sense

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 2nd 2008 No Comments

It must be galling for all the smartphone and UMPC manufacturers who have tried so desperately to slim their products down into wafer-thin tablets, when actually what’s needed is a huge, ergonomically-bulging game-controller-on-steroids. At least, that’s what designer of the AlphaGrip Handheld Computer believes; their entry for the Next-Gen PC Design competition is reminiscent of an XBox 360 controller only with masses of buttons and chording keys underneath for text entry. There’s even a flip-up touchscreen display, flanked by – you guessed it – more controls.

AlphaGrip Handheld Computer

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Opimus Maximus up for sale on ThinkGeek

By Chris Scott Barr on Thursday, Apr 24th 2008 1 Comment

What’s the coolest keyboard that you’ve seen? I wouldn’t be surprised if you said the Optimus Maximus. Honestly, that’s probably the coolest one I’ve ever seen too. It seems that ThinkGeek is pretty impressed with it as well, so impressed, that they have decided to add it to their site for purchase.

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Saitek PK17U Cyborg gaming keyboard – might come alive and blind you with its lights

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 10th 2008 2 Comments

This keyboard almost scares me a little, I mean its certainly intimidating to look at. It has too much lighting, I mean there are all the lights and such on the bezel above the keys, and then there are 3 different colors of backlights that can be adjusted in brightness or even mixed in an color combination with the other two colors and then common gaming keys have their own special lighting as well as metal key caps.

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Intel’s Netbook goes bye bye – now called SmartBook

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 26th 2008 No Comments

smartbook Actually Intel is referring to the whole line of these notebooks as Netbooks, so technically it’s not totally gone. But, the notebook isn’t actually being manufactured by Intel so they are letting all the manufacturers of this platform of notebooks choose their own name for theirs.

Right now there is a manufacturer in Malaysia, they are calling theirs the SmartBook. There will be two different models, both with Intel Celeron processors, a half gig of RAM, and b/g WIFI.

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Dell leaking like a sieve – new laptops abound

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 24th 2008 1 Comment

First we get the leak of the Dell Latitude XT2 tablet which will be available this fall. Then today we have rumor of a new semi-rugged notebook from Dell as well as an entire line replacement in the business sector.

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Spectrum ZX Laptop – blast from the past

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 20th 2008 No Comments

I am no computer historian but when the two computers that made up this beast are referred to as old and older, its pretty obvious this stuff is old. So some guy took a Spectrum ZX and a Toshiba Libretto 110 and smacked the two together.

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Sanwa peripherals have touch pads built in

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Jan 31st 2008 No Comments

Reminiscent of your notebook, these keyboards, presumable designed for desktop use, are wireless keyboards with touch-pads built in. I don’t know how many of you are a fan of your laptop’s touch-pad navigation methods, but I am assuming the percentage is low.

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Three new phones from Toshiba coming soon

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Jan 18th 2008 No Comments

In order, there is the G910, G710, and G450. Sure, the 910 and 710 have keyboards which clearly mean they are smartphones, and thus interesting, but I kind of like the 450 the most out of all of them.

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Matias Folding Keyboard – great for users on the go

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Nov 16th 2007 No Comments

If you have ever used a laptop, the smaller the better for this example, then you know that the keyboards on those ever-shrinking devices just aren’t even close to the keyboard on your desktop. Well, now, you can get the convenience of mobility and compactness that your mobile computer offers up, but with a full sized keyboard.

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It even has a separate num pad, I am not in accounting or anything that uses a significant amount of numbers, but my num pad on my desktop is still nearly invaluable. So if you are in a number-intensive field then using the num pad that you have to use a function key to access is probably less than ideal to say the least.

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Sub-$500 Optimus Maximus keyboards coming soon

By Chris Scott Barr on Tuesday, Nov 6th 2007 No Comments

Those hoping to get their hands on the uber-expensive (and equally cool-looking) Optimus Maximus keyboard are going to be a bit disappointed. They’ve completely sold out of their first run. The good news is that those that already preordered will be getting their units as early as next month, and new (lower) prices are on the way.

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