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• Transformers: Gigantic Optimus Prime Birthday Cake Forcefully Removes Socks From Feet

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Birthday Cake, Cake, Cakes, Jalopnik, Optimus, Optimus Prime, Transformers

  Morgan Valentine, better known as best wife ever, ordered a custom-made Optimus Prime cake for her husband's 30th birthday. The cake was made by Nashville's The French Connection, and has dirt, rocks, grass, plants and an Optimus Prime the size of a toddler. I bet the guy even got sex afterwards. [Flickr via Boing Boing]

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• Optimus Maximus OLEDs finally tested

  Published: August 3, 2007, 5:10 am

  Tags: Art Lebedev, Artlebedev, Keyboard, Optimus Maximus, Optimusmaximus

  first-wave sellout of their Optimus Maximus keyboards, we kinda figured that a "first test" of those OLED keys would have occurred before now. Au contraire my pirate-patched friends. A video of just one of those 113 keys (the spacebar, apparently) has been published showing RGB in all the glory you could expect from a 10.1 x 10.1-mm, 48 x 48

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• PCs: Optimus Prime Case Mod Almost Seven Feet Tall, Eats Mac Minis

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Autobots, Cars, Casemod, Diy, Jalopnik, Optimus Prime, Pcs, Transformers

  John entered in this Optimus Prime casemod into the Extreme Tech casemod contest, and well, it's probably the best Transformers-based casemod we've seen yet. It's six feet ten inches tall, transforms into a smaller desktop mode, has a 7-inch LCD on its body, two windows on its chest (like the actual Optimus prime), Autobots symbols, and

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• Optimus Prime PC case mod stands nearly seven-feet tall

  Published: August 8, 2007, 11:07 am

  Tags: Case Mod, Casemod, Mod, Optimus Prime, Optimusprime, Transformers

  assemble a fully customized Optimus Prime PC case that morphs from a menacing computer into a full-fledged robotic destroyer deserves extra kudos. Pennsylvania's own John Mangus spent some 300-hours over the course of a year building his Optimus Prime machine, which amazingly stands in at six-feet, ten-inches in height and weighs 125-pounds.

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• Optimus Maximus gets a numeric keypad test

  Published: August 10, 2007, 10:45 am

  Tags: Art Lebedev, Artlebedev, Demo, Keyboard, Oled, Optimus Maximus, Optimusmaximus, Test

  of the recent single-key Optimus Maximus OLED key test comes the highly anticipated multiple-key test, a demo of the numeric keypad. Yes, it's a whole bank of the custom-built buttons, flashing in a veritable parade of holiday-season-worthy light. Sure, that exposed PCB and those little plastic keys don't look like they're worth $1536, but

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• Takara Tomy's Transformers MP3 player gets photographed

  Published: August 21, 2007, 1:14 pm

  Tags: Dap, Hands On, Hands On, Handson, Mp3 Player, Mp3player, Optimus Prime, Optimusprime, Takara Tomy, Takaratomy, Tomy, Toy, Toys, Transformers

  Filed under: Portable Audio, Robots Yeah, we've got a soft spot for all things Transformers, and while Takara Tomy's Transformers MP3 player isn't the most advanced DAP on the block, the fun factor is undeniable. Thankfully, the folks over at PrimeDiary were able to wrangle one of these bad boys up for themselves and snap a few photographs.

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• Boxing the Optimus Maximus

  Published: September 2, 2007, 2:55 pm

  Tags: Cardboard, Keyboard, Optimus Maximus, Optimus Project, Optimusmaximus, Optimusproject

  of minutiae related to the Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard, the Optimus Project guys have taken pictures of the box that will contain the keyboard. Some key points of the box: Made of brown cardboard, with a glossy white exterior. Features foam padding. Has two layers of foam. Includes cut outs to keep the power supply,

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• Optimus Prime Returns to the Drive Thru, Lil' Vader in Tow

  Published: September 6, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: Random Stuff, Clips, Costumes, Darth Vader, Masks, Optimus Prime, Star Wars, Transformers

  Optimus Prime has tried to order food from McDonalds with little success before, but this time he brought his friend Darth Vader along to help him get his way. And a very gay man with a dirty mouth. Yeah, I don't know, I'm as confused as you are. The entire Transformers and Star Wars mythologies seem so cheapened right now.

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• New Transformers Show Brings New Toys

  Published: September 10, 2007, 10:40 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Megatron, Optimus Prime, Toys, Transformers

  While its not new news that Transformers: Animated is debuting on Cartoon Network in the spring, the surfacing of new toys from the show is. Over the last few weeks, concept shots started to surface and the bloggers at Toys R Evil have been diligent in gathering them into a single post. New characters like Bulkhead look pretty cool with a modern

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• Transformers: New Transformers Show Brings New Toys

  Published: September 10, 2007, 10:40 pm

  Tags: Megatron, Optimus Prime, Toys, Transformers, Transformers Animated

  While its not new news that Transformers: Animated is debuting on Cartoon Network in the spring, the surfacing of new toys from the show is. Over the last few weeks, concept shots started to surface and the bloggers at Toys R Evil have been diligent in gathering them into a single post. New characters like Bulkhead look pretty cool with a modern

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• Keyboards: Fairlight $28,000 Xynergi Keyboard Makes Optimus Look Cheap

  Published: September 12, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Clips, Fairlight, Keyboard, Keyboards, Optimus, Xynergi

  beating the full-sized Optimus keyboard to market by a good few months. Of course, that price tag is prohibitive to all but the wealthiest of Giz readers (unless you work at a job where this is necessary), so watch the video after the jump and dream about the day when you can have a keyboard that changes its keys for a reasonable price.

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• Expensive Sorta-Vaporware: Wow, There's Actually a Working Optimus Keyboard in Moscow

  Published: September 14, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Expensive Sorta Vaporware, Optimus, Optimus Keyboard, Peripherals

  Hey, remember the Optimus Keyboard? Yeah, it's still not out, and it's still kind of a joke, but look! They have a real one in Moscow! No other details, and this is probably some sort of $15,000 one-time mockup and they're probably no closer to releasing it, but it still looks pretty neat. [Optimus Project]

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• First Optimus Maximus hits Moscow

  Published: September 14, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Art Lebedev, Artlebedev, Keyboard, Oled, Optimus, Optimus Maximus, Optimusmaximus

  time coming, but the first Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard has finally shown itself in Moscow and, as you can see in the picture above, it's already being put to good use. Of course, the lucky few that got in on the first batch of orders will still have to wait a while longer to get a taste of all that excess first hand, with the keyboards

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• Optimus Maximus to ship in white?

  Published: October 5, 2007, 8:41 am

  Tags: Art Lebedev, Art Lebedev Studio, Artlebedev, Artlebedevstudio, Optimus, Optimus Maximus, Optimusmaximus, Rumor

  bandwagon with the Optimus Maximus, but this picture on user optimus_project's LiveJournal pretty clearly shows the Ultimate Keyboard with a white frame as opposed to the silver one we've previously seen. Oh, also it's titled "Optimus Maximus to be shipped in white," so there's that. We're kinda getting the render vibe from the image,

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• Keyboards: Optimus Maximus Shipping in White

  Published: October 5, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Art Lebedev, Keyboards, Maximus, Optimus, Optimus Maximus

  White is the new black is the new white, as Art Lebedev anounces the Optimus Maximus is going to be blanco—not negro—at launch. Better or worse? [Optimus Project]

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