Optimus Maximus keyboard

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An USD$1564.37 keyboard:



From the Optimus Maximus keyboard website:

Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing the function it is currently associated with.

Optimus is equally good for any keyboard layouts—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana—and so on to infinity: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions, images etc.

From Wikipedia:

Even though the pictures on its product page are computer graphics renderings, the designers stated that they intend for the keyboard to be a real product. The studio is currently looking for a manufacturer in China or Korea. According to the official newsletter, the Art, Lebedev Studio expected to receive actual samples of the keyboard by the end of 2006. The keyboard is supposed to be in production in 2007, but the studio is planning on creating another model after the release of the Optimus mini three.

Quake III layout


Photoshop layout

From Slashdot:

godzillopiteco sends timely word that Art. Lebedev Studio is finally going to accept pre-orders for the Optimus Maximus Keyboard — in just under 11 hours at the time this story posts, according to the countdown timer on the site. (Late last year we were primed to pre-order in December 2006.) Read the project's blog for some recent developments.

First two images from artlebedev.com and the last two from Wikipedia

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*drool*

I cant afford it though.