Geek In Me

by Luke Anderson via ohgizmo.com

I hate getting my keyboard greasy from typing on it while eating. My simple solution is to not type while I’m eating, or at the very least, to wipe my hands off before typing. However, if this concept piece comes to fruition, then you won’t have anything to worry about when eating and using your laptop at the same time.

These Keyboard Napkins are napkings that…wait for it…sit on the keyboard of your laptop. Thye even feature the outline of your keys so you can keep typing away. Then when you’re done eating, you can wipe your hands off and continue working. Or you could just wipe your hands off before typing and avoid these fancy (concept) napkins.

by Evan Ackerman via ohgizmo.com

If you have an ounce of sense and haven’t blown $1.5k on an Optimus Maximus keyboard, you can (eventually) satisfy your craving for bite-sized OLED buttons with the Optimus Pultius, a 15 key programmable OLED keyboard accessory and the latest promised offering from Art Lebedev. It’s functionally no different from the fullsize 113 OLED Maximus, using the same key hardware with the same configuration software and a USB port on the back. There’s no price announced yet, and the Pultius should be showing up by the end of this year.

It sort of seems like Art Lebedev is trying to milk their OLED keys for a little extra scratch, perhaps because the cost of the Optimus Maximus is so prohibitively high that I can’t imagine they’re flying off the shelves, despite the hype. But heck, what do I know… I do know that personally, if I want an OLED key fix, I’d just stick with the currently available and presumably cheaper Optimus Mini Three.

by Darren Murph via engadget.com

Or you could say it enables you to keep your fundament firmly planted for, oh, ever. Yes friends, LapWorks’ Gamers Desk essentially eliminates the need to get up and move over to the family PC where a mouse / keyboard combo can guide you to victory in yet another deathmatch. This lapboard (no, not that Lapboard) keeps a keyboard and mouse within reach of couch-based gamers, enabling them to fire up WoW on their HTPC and still maintain the edge afforded to them by using the aforementioned KB / critter tandem. The unit itself measures 11-inches wide by 26.75-inches across, is made from ABS plastic and includes non-skid rubber pads on the underside to keep it from slipping around in that pile of Doritos. It’s available now in gun-metal gray for $39.95, but a few more hues should be ready to roll later this year for those patient enough to wait around.

by Donald Melanson via engadget.com

While we can’t say it’s our notion of an ideal keyboard, we’ve still got to admire designer Kong Fanwen’s ability to throw any sense of practicality to the wind and ditch the whole idea of keys with his new “No-key Keyboard” concept. In the place of that tried and true typing mechanism, this keyboard would instead make use of a camera and the “latest motion capture technology” to watch your fingers’ movement and capture all the right keystrokes (ideally). On the upside, that’d apparently make the keyboard fully waterproof, and it’d apparently come with some snazzy lighting options to help you find those non-existent keys in the dark.