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Posted: 04 June 2007 at 8:47pm |
Are you willing to buy a keyboard for $1,500?!!!!!!!!!!
LCD buttons, can be programmed to any langauge!!!!!!
Here it is:
Optimus Maximus
Limited quantity. The first 200 buyers will get the keyboards in early December. The next 200—in late December. The next 400 keyboards will ship in early January.
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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—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.
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Posted: 04 June 2007 at 9:33pm |
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This KB has been going for some time on engadget. I think it is rediculous to pay that much for a KB> But hey there are always crazy ppl with too much money.
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Posted: 04 June 2007 at 10:09pm |
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I was just telling my co worker that such price is very unreasonable... but i think this is how future keyboards will look like.
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Posted: 04 June 2007 at 10:38pm |
Very long time ago (mid-90s :) )... I saw a Keyboard from the company Apricoat where every single Key hat a small LCD monitor that could be custom programmed. It don't know if it was ever for sale but way ahead of it's time.
I like the idea of Virtual KB's where you basically just have a touch-screen but would take a LOT of getting used to, people are used to tactile sensitivity of "bouncing" keys.
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Posted: 05 June 2007 at 12:39pm |
Nah, I prefer this...
Even clicks as you type (if required)!
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Posted: 05 June 2007 at 2:14pm |
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I tried one of them for a Palm and it is weird. Very cool concept, sure but feels weird to "hammer" the table. Accuracy is OK. For now I think I stick with good-ol Keyboards.
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Posted: 06 June 2007 at 1:13pm |
 Info_Tech wrote:
I was just telling my co worker that such price is very unreasonable... but i think this is how future keyboards will look like. |
Nah, THIS is the future....
I agree about tactile feedback. Those of old enough may remember the sore fingers from trying to type a program into a ZX81!! 
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Posted: 06 June 2007 at 2:08pm |
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Yeah in 2015 maybe.
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