Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys

Koskun writes "What appears to be a Russian design company has on their website a keyboard in which the keys are using OLED to display what function the keys represent. The product is Art. Lebedev Studio's Optimus Keyboard. The uses of this could be amazing. They have pictures of layouts for Photoshop and Quake, as well as a QWERTY and Russian. Here's hoping that this will make it to a production model and not just a design model."

Comments

Re:Viruses will have a field day!

[islandless]

If you look closely you'll notice only icons and command keys for MacOSX.

As a Mac user myself, I can wholeheartedly and unapologetically laugh in the face of all your virus worries. Really, like a Santa Clause, I caught the Trix Rabbit, you just got hit in the nuts with a football, the Three Stooges are hosting a Pie Tasting at a stuffy country club, Laugh.

Have a nice time with yer spyware, and virii, and ddon;t forget to wash your hands, keyboard and mouse with Purell. Feel free to join the laughter anytime.

Re:Good Idea, Bad Price

[ncc74656]

Seems like you'd be better off making a flat keyboard, a la ST:TNG. OLED is flexible, so you could actually produce a single sheet, with indentations behind it that give a "flex". So, you get around the 100+ tiny OLEDS problem by now using a single OLED, and you also get something out of your flat input device that no one has been able to accomplish: tactile feedback.

Something tells me you've never used a computer with a touch "keyboard," such as an Atari 400. You don't want to use such a keyboard for anything even approximating an extended length of time. Even something like what you describe doesn't sound like there'd be nearly enough feedback; at most, it'd be like the click wheel on an iPod (OK for navigating through the menus and selecting songs, but there's a reason the built-in organizer features are read-only).