Emergency Exit

After seven months of waiting time I have my Optimus Mini Three for nearly two month now. And it is fascinating and usefull. But what is really? How it is used and what was the intention during the design process.

What is the difference between a man and a boy?
The price of their toys.

When I saw the Optimus concept the first time, my first thought was: I need it, cannot live without it any longer. I followed the (slow) progress of the device and read every news. In one of the news it was announced that the protocol specification. Instantly hundreds of games and funny things came to my mind. I always loved to program everything that can be programmed and I collected electronic gadgets since I can write C code.

I preordered an Optimus Mini Three as soon as it was possible without knowing the delivery date. After some month my girl friends began to kidding me with: you send money to Russia, but you will never get it. My intention was a small device for coding. I made Pong and Blackjack for Optimus Mini Three (both are unreleased yet).

I use the small keyboard on Mac and Windows computer. On windows I use it to control iTunes. This is very nice, since I can control my music even if I have another fullscreen application running. Since I have written my Mac drivers, I control iTunes, XCode and Expose. I never thought Optimus keyboards are so usefull. But they are.

I can start my favorite applications and control my music. What would be really handy is a plugin to select layouts. I will implement this soon.