- Submitted 100 days ago
- Category: Electronics & Gadgets
- Contributed by
buffawhat - Website: Art.Lebedev

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This is the ultimate accessory in geekdom right now. Expensive as hell, and good luck getting one pre-ordered, but look at it. Every key is a tiny video OLED screen that you can change up to your liking. Created by the geniuses from Art Lebedev Studio, this thing almost never happened. Nearly a year later, it's finally here, with a estimated (sure, ok) ship date of March 2008.
Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone OLED display showing the function it is currently associated with
Optimus is equally good for any keyboard layouts—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic—and so on to infinity: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions, images etc.
Every button on the keyboard is easy to remove in order to clean or replace.
Configurator software allows for programming every button to reproduce a sequence of symbols (up to 256) and editing the image separately for each layout.
Part of the Buffawhat Holiday Geek Wishlist
Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone OLED display showing the function it is currently associated with
Optimus is equally good for any keyboard layouts—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic—and so on to infinity: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions, images etc.
Every button on the keyboard is easy to remove in order to clean or replace.
Configurator software allows for programming every button to reproduce a sequence of symbols (up to 256) and editing the image separately for each layout.
Part of the Buffawhat Holiday Geek Wishlist
Comments
from mway
/ Thursday, 13 Dec 2007 @ 10:16AM
I wonder how much each key is to replace?
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from buffawhat
/ Thursday, 13 Dec 2007 @ 10:18AM
No official word yet but prolly from around $50 or so to replace a key, varying on the current OLED costs... but then.. if you shelled 1500 on a keyboard.. you think you can afford to replace a key or two.
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from jrenee
/ Thursday, 13 Dec 2007 @ 01:02PM
Yoooooooooo...I so would spend 2 g's for this...i'm a computer nerd...sorry
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from mway
/ Thursday, 13 Dec 2007 @ 10:16AM
I wonder how much each key is to replace?
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from buffawhat
/ Thursday, 13 Dec 2007 @ 10:18AM
No official word yet but prolly from around $50 or so to replace a key, varying on the current OLED costs... but then.. if you shelled 1500 on a keyboard.. you think you can afford to replace a key or two.
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from jrenee
/ Thursday, 13 Dec 2007 @ 01:02PM
Yoooooooooo...I so would spend 2 g's for this...i'm a computer nerd...sorry
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