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Optimus keyboard: what Sun Rays really need
All Sun Rays should come equipped with Optimus Keyboards. These keyboards contain little lcds (OLEDs) that make every character on every key programmable, so that in a fraction of a second a keyboard can switch from QUERTY to AZERTY.
With a Sun Ray you can have your whole work environment follow you wherever you go around the world. All you need is to insert your badge and there you go. This is perfect for organisation that want to make desk hot swapping or travel easy. But it is missing one key bit: the keyboards do not adapt to the end user, and working with a foreign keyboard when doable is a huge drag. This clearly would solve that problem.
This was discussed on Slashdot earlier this year, but travelling around Europe has made this deficiency very obvious to me.Posted at 10:15PM Oct 24, 2005 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in travel | Comments[0]
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