Optimus Keyboard

By Thomas Marshall · July 19, 2005 ·

This is a next generation computer keyboard. Instead of each key being plastic with a character painted on it, it is a little OLED screen. This means that you have the alphabet on your keyboard when you need to type stuff, and then when you go into a game, or specailist program, each the screen can change, and the function of the key will also change. So say the you wanted the X key on it to be the shoot key, you could tell the keyboard driver that, and then assign the key a little picture. So then you could have a cross hair on it, so you wouldn’t have to keep checking what each key does, because its little screen will tell you. It will be out in UK in 2006, and will aparently cost the same amount as a decent phone. (Which probably means around £100, but it would not surprise me one little bit if it was more than that when it comes out.) So click here to go to the Optimus keyboard website.