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Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the review-copy-please? dept.

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."

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  1. Optimus Keyboard? by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Funny

    A prime idea, that.

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    1. Re:Optimus Keyboard? by JoshRosenbaum · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't think there's a "+1 Transformer's Reference", but if there was, I'd give it to ya. ;)

    2. Re:Optimus Keyboard? by sik0fewl · · Score: 4, Funny

      I wonder if it autobotically transforms the keyboard for whatever application is active.

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    3. Re:Optimus Keyboard? by GoodNicsTken · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just think, with a little programming to group keys, you could have porn on screen and on the keyboard at the same time.

    4. Re:Optimus Keyboard? by Takara · · Score: 3, Funny

      Woosh.

  2. Get these into our highschools NOW! by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since all of our jobs are being outsourced to other countries, this keyboard will be perfect for public schools where they will need to teach children to function in the wonderful world of order-taking at fast food restaurants on those nifty little picture-only cash-registers..

  3. Viruses will have a field day! by garcia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool, not only could viruses switch what appears on your screen when you type you could also wake up and find a huge picture of goatse on your keyboard.

  4. geez... by JoeLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll bet you the latest spyware would get the ability to run banner ads through the keyboard. "Hit the monkey now!"

  5. Woo-Hoo! by hellomynameisclinton · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can finally get past the second step - I'll have an ANY KEY!

  6. that's good news by whovian · · Score: 4, Funny

    There really could be an 'Any' key.

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  7. Re:a couple of questions before buying by snorklewacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    > last, but for me most importantly, are the pretty pictures on the left-hand column of keys configurable?

    No. After all, the whole point of a super-expensive keyboard with keys that can dynamically change their labels is to hardwire their function in. It was just cheaper to use an OLED display than to silkscreen them on.

    You even rip off the MS menu keys on your work PC? Just ... wow.

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  8. New type of Trojan by Blindman · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could install a keyboard game like Whack-a-mole, and the user unwittingly types in code to destroy their own system.

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  9. Yes, every key would change... by Omega · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would be really funny if the prompt read, "Press any key" and every key on the keyboard changed to read "Any". :)

    1. Re:Yes, every key would change... by eth1 · · Score: 3, Funny

      "That would be really funny if the prompt read, "Press any key" and every key on the keyboard changed to read "Any". :)"

      Tech Support: Hello, how may I help you?
      Customer: Hi, it says to press the 'Any' key, but I see 104 'Any' keys... which one do I press?
      Tech Support: *blam*

  10. Re:Good Idea, Bad Price by moonbender · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, if only LCD/OLEDs weren't so heavy, they sure would be useful to have on mobile devices...

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  11. Re:Good Idea, Bad Price by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could use it on mobile devices.

    But it'd require a harness. :)

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