I Want One! Optimus Maximus
I don’t ordinarly gush over gadgets, but this keyboard - The Optimus Maximus - has me absolutely drooling. Engadget has a coulple sneak peeks at this techno-candy-ultra-tool.
This could be the most awesome thing art.lebdev has ever done. Which is saying a lot because if you hit the site, you’ll immediately note (besides the serious Optimus promo) at least a few nifty things.
What is the Optimus? Well, I’d tell you but then I’d have to kill you.
In all seriousness, it’s a fully programmable LCD keyboard. What this means is that it can be customized perfectly for gaming shortcut key layouts, photo editing shortcut key layouts, various language layouts, etc etc. Not only can you assign keys to specific tasks, but you can have those keys display custom images so you don’t forget what exactly those keys are for.
As delightful as that sounds for multi-discipline computer users, the Optimus has been delayed time and time again. The price point may be a bit off-putting for a lot of people, also. $462.27 US dollars will snag you one of these gorgeous technical delights with ONE programmable key. $1564.37 US dollars will get you all 113 keys of LCD glory.
As of this post, it’s available for pre-order and is supposedly going to ship in February 2008. Be patient, gentle readers! Don’t smash that piggy yet (unless you can afford to pre-order)! Save your pennies, nickels, dimes, wrinkled dollar bills.
Despite my lust for this beauty, I’m still skeptical enough to want to wait for some solid reviews before I commit myself to starvation to get one.
