NEWS: The Best Keyboard in the World

GEEK: The Best Keyboard in the World

The Optimus Keyboard isn't in production yet, but it sure as hell should be. Each key on this keyboard is a tiny display screen, making the keyboard configurable and re-configurable into any layout you want -- including specialized layouts for foreign characters, programs with lots of hotkeys, commonly-used code functions, or games.

Answers to some of the frequently asked questions about the keyboard:

I will be one of the first in line to get one of these things when they hit the market.

but, how much will these thing cost?

(also if it's designed just like in the product shots, i'll want one too)

[Edited on Jul 19, 2005 by zenFish]

And I thought Bettina's set would be the only thing I drooled over today!

oh. my. god.

I need one of these so bad! It'll make working in cubase 100x quicker, cos i can never remember any of the hot keys!

I want it NOW!! ahem.

Damn... That's hot.

I want it. I don't even really need it, but I want it anyway.

saw this, if it detects what game your playing and changes the keys to the controls set in game then there really on to a winner.

But i feel spilling my coffee because of someones funny IRC comment will be more of a problem

Very pretty. Except that this is the greatest keyboard in the world...



The Apple Extended Keyboard II uses mechanical key switches to give you that tactile "click" feel that no longer exists in keyboards today. They don't even make those key switches anymore, and buying a new keyboard with them costs upwards of $100.

You can add all the features you want to a keyboard, but ultimately the most you'll do with it is type. And if that's not a comfortable experience, it's a shitty keyboard.

[Edited on Jul 19, 2005 by AceTracer]

OGG WANT

Ogg move fast cuz I'm beating anyone that gets in between me and those things. Holy mother of FUCK those are HOT!

Good god.....this pleases Dvorak.

I want two. One to type on and one to keep in my pants, close to my jibblyparts.

::drools on keyboard::

oops, guess I need to go buy a new one now. shucks.

You forget to realize that I'm probably bigger than you.

/drool

I'm fully willing to trample both of you for this. I want a keyboard that I can program to switch into a lightshow when the screensaver kicks in.

Sweet jesus. Technology finally overrules my passion for hot women. I could be browsing sets, but no... i have that page open and probably will for some time.

Geek mode terminated.

You're the same type of person that puts LED lights on his cooling fans aren't you?

So are Bean and I.

Nope, the tower should be silent, dark and not take attention from the pretty lights everywhere else. I have been known to put the occasional carton character sticker or tribble on it though.

Who else wants to write a special keyboard driver for the non touch typists in their family where the keys rearrange themselves every time it boots up?

Hooray for smart people inventing cool shit!


EP

I read that these pics are Photoshop creations...

It's a design for a future keyboard that's going into production.

No, it doesn't exist yet. Yes, it will exist. This is the design for it.

This talk makes me weary.

If there isn't even a prototype in existence, this will probably be something that doesn't make it to market for some reason. Many possible things could create this outcome, but i'll venture the most likely one: Wild underestimation of costs involved in production