wtf does this keyboard do that makes it cost more then the average pc i mean $1500 wow, this thing better do my homework for me, then i'd consider $1500. to me it looks like a average high end keyboard prob $160 tops. wonder if it has gold wiring/pcb Optimus Maximus Keyboard http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=318
I guess it's the LCDs on each friggin key and whatever shit makes them work. EDIT: After clicking and reading that, it says OLED not LCD. But I don't know what the friggin difference is. Shit. EDIT2: O RLY? Fuck you Wikipedia. Just because.
114-key color OLED (organic LED) i dont know either is it a midget holding a flashlight in the keyboard or something?
You can customize the keys to whatever you want it to display or so I've read before. If I had one, all of my keys would display:
This started out as something really cool..about 2 years ago. Art Lebdev said it would cost "about as much as a nice cellphone" putting it around 500-600. Several weeks ago they announced the price was $1200, and then this past week at CeBIT, announced it was going to be $1500. It's been vaporware for an awfully long time, been through several revisions and not once has Art Lebdev ever given any real-time demonstrations with the device. Pr-orders have been open for a year now I beleive, but I wonder how many will be canceled now that the price tag is so high. It's a great concept, but not for that much money.
would be cool if your office co workers had one and you can customize the keys to say "fuck you asshole cocksucker" in neon pink.
But seriously WTF. $1500? Perhaps Sony will release it as an official USB keyboard for the PS3. It does look damn nice though. But I think I'll stick with my Logitech UltraX
They got a working one on display, it's not as fancy as it looked back in the day though lol Still a cool concept but too rich for my blood. Though I can just imagine some cool "keyboard saver" hacks
Awesome! Agreed, this might be a nice novelty item at $500 for those with money burning a hole in their pocket. I always thought it would be great for learning applications like Photoshop if the keys showed you what each function would do, etc. But $1500? Nah, it will never get the app support if only a handful of people in the world own one... The prototype pics were awesome, though... Google Image Search for Optimus Keyboard
You mean they're actually still gonna release this? I remember reading about it a long long long long long time ago, thinking "That's pretty cool" and never hearing about it since.
It's great, it's cool, it looks nice. It would be great to insert some animations on your keys But, we all know it: it's TOO expensive. I won't buy it unless I win in a lottery
I was actually thinking about something like that a few months ago and they stole my friggin' idea !!!! I WAS GONNA BE RICH !!
Me too. I read about it in a gadget magazine.... probably 5 years ago but after getting 5 years older and knowing that there are better things to spend that amount of money on I thought, "nah". Then again, the idea of a keyboard costing MORE than a PC is just off putting to me
So from 14.07.2005 to 18.03.2007 it is 5 years ? Must have been some kind of wormhole or timewrap you used to make it 5 years.... Source
It sucks they keep raising the price...I have 1200 squirreled away for this bad boy....assuming it works like it says and has no driver/software issues... but considering that 3 of the oled buttons cost $160 I figured the 1200 ballpark was too good to be true....I want to jump on the "make it cheaper" bandwagon but I don't want it cheaper at the cost of quality. For me this would be a god send...I have seen the photoshop demo of the keyboard: And for someone who uses Photopshop, Vegas Video, and Dreamweaver NONSTOP this could be a very time saving machine which is important to me.
