I forgot to change the silly blue, but of course that would have to go, too. There are only two "multimedia" [snear!] buttons on a keyboard I give a rat's ass about: volume and mute. They're on the right above the keypad.
On my keyboard, that little LCD would be extremely legible, and fully programable so anyone else could develop a little app to controll it. The real G15 has a hinged LCD so you can adjust it for maximum readability. If the screen were very high quality, this would be unnecessary as it would be readable from any angle. I'm thinking B&W OLED would do the trick. There would be about 10 - 15 degrees of tilt built right into the unit, but hinging would be unnecessary.
I permitted the M1, M2 and M3 buttons to stay, as the ability to shift the programable keys might actually be useful. My keyboard would also be very thin, but have a very solid bottom so it didn't flex and would feel like a quality piece of hardware. Hmm... custom weighting to each key like the Das Keyboard might also be slick. Wireless model also available, RF of course.
I tried to figure out a way to incorporate frickin' lasers, but no ideas yet.
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I built a prototype of something like that actually.. the lasers were easy but the sharks kept dying.
aha, the wireless MX™ 5000 Laser doesn't have the bars AND have frickin' lasers.
So, not to sound like a keyboard newb (after 20 some years of being a user of 'em, you'd think I'd know a thing or two, but alas...) but why the hell do you need a display on your keyboard?
To me, the key (hah!) features of a keyboard are the little things... Those little nobs on the 'j' and 'f' keys to let you know where you are... Also, when playing games, the f-keys are impossible for me to even bother with and I generally get my fingers all tied up getting to any numbers higher than 4. ("Shit, I just cast amplify curse and I wanted to cast fear... shit, that was a dot, not a debuff." See, now I have an excuse for getting agro on mobs ahead of the tank.)
It's probably sacrilege, but I do more clicking to cast spells and such than typing. (I can hear the gasps from here.)
*gasp*
/gkick
Keep your "j knobs" to yourself, sicko.
buttons are fine, as long as they are high tech super efficient macros that sense not only if your target is friendly or not and the appropriate level spell, but the blood type and political party of your target as well. Then they take about the same abmount of time as hotkeys.
The idea behind the screen is to keep it fully programable. I'm sure someone somewhere could come up with a cool idea for how to use this.
I just noticed the exhaust vent on the bottom of my laptop... those are cool. Makes it looks so industrial or maybe fast.
You're keyboard should definitely have exhaust ports/vents.
Maybe I could rice it out and make it glow from the vents.
don't forget the mugen stickers, it adds like 200hp to whatever its on.
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