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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."
Um, nobody claimed it was a product, did you bother to read the post or look past that one page on the website? This is a design concept by a russian company who does industrial design. many of their other design concepts have made it to production.
If you read Sternbach and Okuda's tech manual for the Enterprise-D, you'll find the LCARS terminals have an interface that includes not only dynamically shifting graphics but tactile feedback as well. All the soft button graphics and okudagrams are fronted by low-power force fields that let the user touch type, feeling the buttons by sense of touch and getting tactile feedback for button presses, slider movement, etc.