208-Key Keyboard -- YES NO MORE SHIFT KEY!
by You know those people that hate using the shift key? YEAH I THINK YOU KNOW THE TYPE OF PERSON I MEAN. HEHEHEHEHE. Well, Compaq is coming out with a keyboard designed specifically for them! NO SHIFT KEY!
Director of Product Development Erik Mancil said, "We're a company that takes chances. Sure our 13 button mouse didn't go over well, but we attribute that to poor marketing not product design. The 208 position keyboard is bound to be a blockbuster product."
Compaq plans to launch a $25 million marketing blitz using the slogan "Frightened of a shift-y keyboard? This keyboard has been scared shiftless."
Check it out here, with a picture included. I think this keyboard may just change the world. heheh
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I love the shift key .. it's my passion..
life is a mystery
"We're a company that takes chances. Sure our 13 button mouse didn't go over well, but we attribute that to poor marketing not product design. The 208 position keyboard is bound to be a blockbuster product."
hahahahahahahaha!
hahah, i know, so funny. there's some other funny quotes in the story, like the one from the lady who is in the SHIFT KEY HATERS ASSOCIATION... hahahaaaa
HAHA yea i know.. and then at the end -- We're also working on a 312 key version. We really hate the 'control' key too." -- lol!
I got my whole class wound up, and [conveniently] omitted the disclaimer. muah-hahahahaha; I'm evil
hahaha.... wow.
how can you hate the shift key?? ian that story was so funny! 13 button mice rule!!!!!
"we also don't like the control key" LOL
see comment number 5
tsk tsk tsk, always so negative. hahah.. thanks for your comment, funky, the more the better!
at least someone around here appreciates my efforts!
HEEEEEEEY! i wasnt being negative... i was just pointing out the fact that i had already stated the same factoid that he had!! I enjoy reading funk's comments... keep em comin!
i know, i know, i was just trying to protect his ego.
protect? i dont think it can be enlarged much more...
WHAT!? i dont have a big ego! now bow before me and apoligize, peasant!!
that has got to be the dumbest idea in the world! hahahah
hmm, unless you often hit Shift+Shift, I believe it should be a 206-key, and then who needs Shift+Caps Lock? I'll leave it up to the reader's discernment the necessity of Shift+F1...F12
It's just painfully obvious to me that these so-called 'researchers' didn't really put enough thought into this.
Hmm, you think I'm crazy or something right? Note that the keyboard in the picture only has 152 keys!!! That's right. Now that's just not nearly enough. I think someone is messing with us or something.
152.
ya think? hmmm...
Ew that is one UGLY looking keyboard!!
haha... i guess you could say that this keyboard will leave you SHIFTLESS.. hehe, sorry, corny!
I don't get it.
yea matt what do you MEAN by that?
shift·less (shftls)adj.
Lacking ambition or purpose; lazy: a shiftless student.
Characterized by a lack of ambition or energy: studied in a shiftless way.
Lacking resourcefulness or efficiency; incompetent.
Dean, I guess you're not as smart as I thought. I mean, you knew "glanced" but you were totally stumped by "shiftless"!
no matt, i think you were making the word "shiftless" a euphemism.
i wrote that! sorry guys! i was on the wrong login name! jahanna did NOT diss matt... i did!
this could be very dangerous....haha ok not really
NO!! i wasnt!!! seriously, i was like, these people have never heard that word?? and then i re-read it and i see what you mean, but honestly, thats NOT what i was thinking!
is that really true? if it is that's kind of dumb, i think its called Lazy perhaps? how hard is it to push a 2 keys at once? for real though.
While they are at it they might as well get rid of AOL because 95% of AOL users feel the need to TYPE IN ALL CAPS CAUSE THEY ARE SPECIAL.
i type all in caps here at work cus our system is all caps, and i would forget to turn them off when i type my emails and things on here. but i learned to turn them off cus people kept on yelling at me. I also have aol, could THAT have something to do with it? i'm making no sense nevermind.
Well im tryin to figure out how the capslock key at your house mysteriously turned on so that u typed in all caps. Unless your psychic and can turn on your capslock key on any keyboard you are near cause of work. Now that would be kinda cool i guess.
Whoops, i should of explained myself a little:sorry. i sign on ezabel at work, not at home.