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Optimus Maximus creator Art.Lebedev plans new sub-$800 full-color keyboard

by David Gonzales on Mar 22, 2008 at 09:06 AM

Optimus Maximus keyboard facing Optimus Upravlator

Seems like a lot of brilliant ideas abound in the mind of desktop computing visionary Art.Lebedev. After giving us that funky, interactive, and slightly over-priced Optimus Maximus keyboard, he now plans on making an entirely new type of keyboard to remedy the lack of physical keys in the Maximus. This year, he says their team’s goal is to create a prototype of a keyboard with transparent keys overlayed on a single display. Basically, what they’re trying to do with this is create an entirely visual keyboard, but instead of patching together hundreds of different screens for keys, they will use only one big screen. Trying to picture this thing working is hard in itself, so I won’t count on this project to be completed any time soon. But they are aiming to have this completed before the year ends and hopefully start production of it at that time as well. Or if not, then production will start in early 2009.

Read [Optimus Project] Via [Gizmodo]

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