Thursday, April 24, 2008

The $1600 keyboard

Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus keyboard, with its 133 tiny OLED display keys, is finally available to the general public (or more likely, photo-shopping enthusiasts) on ThinkGeek.com. The keyboard was only previously available through a limited pre-ordered list at the Lebedev Web site. Each key can be individually programmed to display different tasks, like playing tiny movies, HTML codes, or your favorite Web sites.

But if you thought that the price might have come down to bring in the curious consumer, you’re wrong. And endearingly naive. At $1,600, it costs more than a few iPhones, most quality laptops, and even a couple of Danny Dumas or Brian Lam haircuts. Heck, you could even take a round trip to see Lebedev himself in Europe–why don’t you buy him a beer in Russia’s most expensive pub for coming up with such a cool and crazy-cracky product? Or you can stare at tiny screens and see your own fonts come to life, which is its own type of fun.

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