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$1,200 keyboard. Nope, it isn't April 1st!

Still looking for some holiday stocking fillers … how about a keyboard? It has 103 keys and can display images on each key using OLEDs Organic LEDs. Price? If you need to ask the price, this keyboard isnt for you! Introducing the Optimus Keyboard by Art...

Tags: Lebedev, keyboard, New-Tech, Peripherals

Blog posts 2006-11-30

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Optimus Maximus

Despite its innovative approach to keyboard design, the OLED-based Optimus Maximus keyboard is best considered an expensive novelty. Its $1,600 price tag keeps it out of the hands of the average consumer, and we also question the practical benefit of using 113 customizable OLED screens as an input device. There...

Tags: Keyboards, Lebedev Studio, default layout, Optimus Maximus, Optimus Corp., keyboard

Product reviews 2008-07-17

Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!

Your opportunity to be the first to splash out thousands of dollars on a keyboard ... one Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard has found its way onto eBay. The bidding currently stands at over $1,300 - an insane price for a keyboard (and fast...

Tags: Optimus Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, eBay Inc., Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Optimus Maximus - Here's what a $1,490 keyboard looks like

Well, its been years in development but Art Lebedev has finally finished development work on the 114-key color OLED organic LED Optimus Maximus keyboard. Press shots have been released at CeBIT and Ive compiled a gallery of the images here. No keyboard prototypes are present at CeBIT, just...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, Optimus, organic light-emitting diode, Maximus

Blog posts 2007-03-15

A quick tour of marketing magic

A client of CNET’s recently asked me to do a presentation on “important events in marketing,” and I got to thinking about it in the pool this morning. Good marketing sings; it resonates with something that’s already in the recipient’s mind. And that’s why I love it: A...

Tags: advertisement, Federal Express, marketing

Blog posts 2006-09-12