The Ultimate Keyboard

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Fabled Optimus Maximus Keyboard has Arrived

Yep. Time to take a second mortgage on your home or break into your kid's college fund. With the singing of angels and a ray of sunlight parting the clouds, the fabled Optimus Maximus Keyboard has descended from Russian design studio Art Lebedev like an orgasm of geekiness. As you should know by now this amazing keyboard features a tiny screen on each key... that's 113 screens in all. What can you do with these tiny screens, you ask? Well, each key can change its image dynamically depending on what you're doing.

Hold down SHIFT and all keys go uppercase. Run Photoshop and you can set it so each hotkey has an image representing its function. Set a key to monitor your CPU usage or display what iTunes track you are currently playing. You can make a key into a tiny clock with moving hands and play animated gif files or even quicktime movies. Of course all this futuristic technology is going to cost you a pretty penny... but we figure you'll just expense the Optimus and tout its "incredible increased efficiency when using PowerPoint hotkeys" in your expense report summary.

Optimus Maxiumus Keyboard In Action


Product Features

* Revolutionary Keyboard Features a tiny OLED screen on each key. 113 screens total.
* Each key can be individually programmed to perform a series of functions, open an application or run an Applescript (Mac only)
* Various System Monitor functions can dynamically display on a key including CPU usage, CPU temperature, Network Speed, and Memory Usage
* Play a GIF animation or Quicktime movie on a Key
* Paint images across all keys at once in your image editor of choice
* Key sets can be linked to an application, so whenever you open that app the appropriate keys come up
* Powerful layer function allows you to combine existing key sets in different ways
* Use any language with the appropriate key images including Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, and Hiragana.
* Display notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions or any other special symbol.
* Any key (or to be exact, a unit consisting of a cap, a microchip and a display) can be easily removed by hands to be cleaned or replaced
* Built in USB hub
* SD Card Slot for Storing keyboard Settings

System Requirements

* PC with installed OS Windows XP or Vista, with a USB 1.1 (or better 2.0) port; Mac OS X 10.5.1 or higher.
* At least 20 MB of free space on hard drive.
* At least 256 MB of RAM.

Product Specifications

* Keyboard Dimensions: Length 537 mm, Width 173 mm, Height 38 mm
* Key Dimensions: 20.2 x 20.2 mm
* Display Dimensions: 10.1 x 10.1 mm viewable area on each key
* Display Resolution: 48 x 48 pixels per key
* Frame Rate: 10 FPS
* Color Depth: 65,536 Colors
* Viewing Angle: 160 degrees
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Price tag: $1,599.99
 
If you ever get to this point; turn off your PC, unplug it, and check yourself into the nearest hospital.....

yeah - it's cool, to see and use at a convention but not to own.
 
They probably could've spent all the money they wasted on that project into integrating computer I/O with the human brian via subdermal micro-computer implants. Now I would pay for that.. lol
 
who looks at their keyboard? i never do, unless im cleaning it
could you imagine spilling a can of pop on that - kill yourself
 
That looks amazing... But I'd rather spend 200$ on an extra monitor to see all that stuff instead of looking at my keyboard filled with filth :D
 
i think you read that wrong jv, its 1600 bucks now 200 lol
 
Um, wow, I actually considered buying this, since I have a mac, and with the limited amount of apple compatible keyboards with all the apple keys I would of got this so I can have all my mac keys, then I saw the $1600 price tag... I can buy another mac pro with that, Hell I can buy a cheap car for that......
 
Yeah, it's been out for the longest time. Although extremely awesome, I like my G15 more. :P
 
Ha as soon as i saw the title i knew what this was going to be about. Keyboard would be really handy, but its over budget. Still really cool though
 
Soul_of_a_Sinner said:
Ha as soon as i saw the title i knew what this was going to be about. Keyboard would be really handy, but its over budget. Still really cool though
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Over budget? I am a Mac user, I buy Macs that are expensive compared to pcs, and I would not even buy that, its beyond over budget its just ridiculous.
 
-Jv- said:
I know, why would I pay 1600 for a monitor ?
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You could always pay $1600 for 8 monitors, get some wall brackets and have a 9-screen display lol


But yeah the keyboard is outrageous, it costs as much as I paid to upgrade my build a month ago
 
Lol, I have a Logitech G15 keyboard, and this one, on the video, is pathetic ... You do not need all of this .. It's only a keyboard lol.
logitech-g15-gaming-keyboard-1.jpg
 
yeah i have that G15 also and I dont use the screen. I only got it for the G keys and the quick volume control.
 
blizbiggy said:
yeah i have that G15 also and I dont use the screen. I only got it for the G keys and the quick volume control.
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Then you should have bought the G11 and not payed for the screen :/

I want to get the G19 and use the screen for vent but I'm not sure if it will work how I want it to so iunno if it's worth the money..
 
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