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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

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Blog posts 2008-01-30

Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!

Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!A fool and his money are soon parted. nt;-)Probably has $200 worth of parts in it...OLED's ain't THAT expensive.RE: Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!It's a great idea but its over priced. In the 80's my dad started...

Tags: Keyboards, OLED Technology, Art Lebedev, keyboard, organic light-emitting diode, Optimus Corp., Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

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 Keyboard (Optimus Maximus Keyboard)

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Optimus Maximus KeyboardErgonomic Version?$1500 and its not even ergonomic?Worth the price?The bloody thing's not even ergonomic. I'm sorry, but a conventionally-laid out "unconventional" keyboard doesn't do it for me. Perhaps if it were able to use galvanic skin response to enhance the human-machine interface, and use an...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, Optimus Maximus Keyboard, Optimus Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-16

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Tags: Keyboards, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Optimus, TechMeme, Web, keyboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2007-03-16

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

Optimus Maximus - Here's what a $1,490 keyboard looks likeThis reminds me, there use to be....This exotic executive "thing" like a blotter.(this was in the mid'90's)It contained a Flat screen monitor(don't remeber the size) and a secondary screen that was a Keyboard and as it was all touchscreen it did...

Tags: Keyboards, Optimus Corp., keyboard

Discussion threads 2007-03-15

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

Optimus Maximus Keyboard

First look at the finalized Optimus Maximus keyboard. Here's what a $1,490 keyboard looks like.

Tags: Keyboards, Optimus Maximus Keyboard, keyboard, Optimus

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