$1500 Keyboard?

[Takrin]

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

 

[Orc]

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:

One of the great benefits of an OLED display over the traditional LCD displays is that OLEDs do not require a backlight to function. This means that they draw far less power and, when powered from a battery, can operate longer on the same charge. It is also known that OLED-based display devices can be more effectively manufactured than liquid-crystal and plasma displays. However, degradation of OLED materials (see drawbacks) have limited the use of these materials.

O RLY? Fuck you Wikipedia. Just because.

 

[Takrin]

114-key color OLED (organic LED)

i dont know either is it a midget holding a flashlight in the keyboard or something?

 

[Orc]

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:

 

[Kyoji]

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.

 

[Qpido]

Apparently the reason that it cost so much, is that it sucks your cock for you

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Q~

 

[Volsfan91]

That Optimus keyboard is pretty much continuous vaporware.

 

[strummer12]

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.

 

[shaunj66]

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

 

[th3sandm4n]

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

 

[shemmy]

i'll be buying one of those when i go to the store to pick up duke nuk'em 4.

 

[Perplexer]

i'll be buying one of those when i go to the store to pick up duke nuk'em 4.Â

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

 

[Dirtie]

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.

 

[Caoimhin]

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

 

[Icarus]

I was actually thinking about something like that a few months ago and they stole my friggin' idea !!!! I WAS GONNA BE RICH !!

 

[Harsky]

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.

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

 

[Modrak]

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.

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

 

[th3sandm4n]

I was actually thinking about something like that a few months ago and they stole my friggin' idea !!!! I WAS GONNA BE RICH !!

They first showed this like what seems 10 years ago lol

 

[WeaponXxX]

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.

 

[bobrules]

endless possibillities if the keyboard is like a giant led screen.