WANT Wednesdays
Jul 23rd, 2008 by Waffles
Ready for another real installment of WANT Wednesdays? I’m here to bring you things of extreme geekery, depending on your committment to geekdom.
We’ve all heard the Battlestar Galactica slang for “Cylon,” right? They call them toasters, and for good reason — they’ll all chrome and shiny just like your little pop-up bread oven.
This product takes a literal look at the toaster, and brings you… a toaster! It’s a limited edition for Comic-Con, which means that in a year or two each one will be worth a bagagillion dollars.
Best of all, it leaves the impression of a cylon on your bread? Perfect for those early mornings when you just need a pick-me-up from an evil robot.
(Link to a better description, but you can only buy it at Comic-Con in San Diego Thursday-Sunday.)
This is a just a big flagrant waste of money. Maybe if I was some sort of insane computer power user, editing video, using Photoshop, playing World of Warcraft, editing audio, building with Auto-CAD, etc., this may be worth it. But over $1500 for a keyboard? I think not.
This isn’t to say that if I was given one, I would turn it down. Basically, it’s a keyboard with a little tiny LCD screen inside each clear-covered key. You have your basic configurations, like a standard QWERTY keyboard, but if you switch over to, say, Photoshop, the keys turn into shortcut keys for the program. There is no more guessing which key is the shortcut to “Crop”.
See the colorful keys along the left? You can program them to act as shortcuts to programs, for those too lazy to make a couple of clicks. But they do dynamically update, so if you wanted a key to check on your processor’s power usage, it updates live with a number. Very cool. Check out the keyboard in action:
They’re a steal at only $1,589.99 (which means at this price, you have to steal one if you want it). Check out ThinkGeek to see more details. In fact, check out everything at ThinkGeek. They’re awesome.



Video fail!
That would be perfect for me, because I’m always thinking, you know, if only there were some sort of video display device attached to my computer’s CPU. Some sort of “screen” or “panel” of a light-emitting material which could be electrically stimulated in patterns to form images and words. Sort of a dynamic visual output device. That would be so useful!
But the toaster is frakkin’ sweet, though.