Coolest Keyboard EVER

[Diviant]

Behold:

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/







Quoted from the FAQ:

It's in initial stage of production

We hope it will be released in 2006

It will cost less than a good mobile phone

It will be real

It will be OS-independent (at least it can work in some default state with any OS)

It will support any language or layout

Moscow is the capital of Russia

Each key could be programmed to produce any sequence

It will be an open-source keyboard, SDK will be available

Some day it will be split ('ergonomic')

It will most likely use OLED technology (e-paper is sooo slow)

Our studio is located two blocks from the Kremlin

It will feature a key-saver

Keys will use animation when needed

It has numeric keypad because we love it

There's no snow in Moscow during Summer

It will be available worldwide (why not?)

OEM will be possible (why not?)

[Kyonye]

Yeah I saw that the other day..It's pretty sweet..

[JT Hutt]

Christ that pwns.

[Nodrog]

This will be the only time I will ever call a key board sexy. But is so damn sexy!

[LimpBIT]

Itll sell but its still not that cool. You kids and your fancy digitial keyboards.

[Hamma]

That is pretty interesting

[Giovanni]

What's that? Yep... that was me creaming my pants...

[Derfud]

Thats a pretty neat innovation, next thing you know we'll be using flat panels of glass with projections of light instead of keyboards.

[Retroactive]

Hey, Derfud, thats not a bad idea..

But this keyboard is amazing. I have to have one.

[321]

Pssh Eluminx > all.

[DaShiznit]

Eluminx is the milk of the infidel. Bow down before the one true keyboard, Optimus or face your destruction FOOL.

[Diviant]

There's a keyboard out, it's a laser image that's beamed from a small box down to your table, and it can sense when you move over the key, so it can tell when you've hit the key.

[Nodrog]

Originally Posted by Giovanni

What's that? Yep... that was me creaming my pants...

Oh BTW

[Giovanni]

Originally Posted by Diviant

There's a keyboard out, it's a laser image that's beamed from a small box down to your table, and it can sense when you move over the key, so it can tell when you've hit the key.

Pics or stfu!

[Jaged]

I am so getting one when it comes out.