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Worlds coolest keyboard!

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Lilleput

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http://www.artlebedev.ru/portfolio/optimus/

It's written in Russian but its basicly a normal keyboard where all the buttons have small OLED screens so you can get each one to show anything you'd like as shown in the pictures.

if those crazy russians start to produce it ill buy one :p
 
WTF, the "das keyboard" doesn't have letters on it... It couldn't use that... But I like the other one!
If you would want one now, I guess it would be something up to 500 Euros...

Buba
 
That Russian keyboard is cool :thumbsup: however it might look crap on my desk cos it would probly be longer than my 15" LCD...but then again I wouldnt care :mrgreen:
 
Frequently Answered Answers about the Optimus keyboard
It's in initial stage of production
We hope it will be released in 2006
It will cost less than a good mobile phone
It will be real
It will be OS-independent (at least it can work in some default state with any OS)
It will support any language or layout
Moscow is the capital of Russia
Each key could be programmed to produce any sequence
It will be an open-source keyboard, SDK will be available
Some day it will be split ('ergonomic')
It will most likely use OLED technology (e-paper is sooo slow)
Our studio is located two blocks from the Kremlin
It will feature a key-saver
Keys will use animation when needed
It has numeric keypad because we love it
There's no snow in Moscow during Summer
It will be available worldwide (why not?)
OEM will be possible (why not?)


BAM!
 
^ dont worry, once they'll get it into mass production it will get down to a reasonable price ;)
 
Gotta love some of the questions they seem to have been asked!!! If the answers are:

Lilleput said:
Frequently Answered Answers about the Optimus keyboard
Moscow is the capital of Russia
Our studio is located two blocks from the Kremlin
There's no snow in Moscow during Summer
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:lol:

Certainly the first and last of those questions could've been answered with a Google search...?
 
So the buzz around the web on that Optimus keyboard we posted up a couple of days ago has been intense. A recent interview with Artemy Lebedev, founder and director of the Russian design firm working on the keyboard, sheds some light on the future of this device: they envision is as an ?open source? keyboard, with an SDK and a ?keyboard studio? application that lets users customize the keyboard any way they choose (sweeeet!). The company is currently negotiating with several different manufacturers to get the Optimus into production, and they?re hoping to see it getting into our hot little hands in about a year for "less than $200 to $300."
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in Engadget
 
OMG ill so buy 2 one for my pc and one just to hang on the wall and light up LOL.
 
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