The Coolest Keyboard … Ever

I’ve found recent keyboards, for the past decade anyway, pretty damn uninteresting. Sure, many have added “ergonomics” and scroll buttons, and application keys… But overall they’re nothing special and I’ve rarely seen anyone take advantage of most of the new features.

The last keyboard, that saw major market distribution, that I’ve really liked and still have is the old Gateway Anykey.

This thing is 100% remappable and programable. It’s totally OS Independent (everything is actually in the keyboard) so it works as well on a Linux box as it does on a Wintel machine.

Why this didn’t become the standard for keyboards everywhere, I will never understand. Even Gateway stopped shipping it after a couple of years.

Enter the Optimus Keyboard.

The Optimus has been in the rumor mill for quite some time - all the big “blogs” have talked about it in the past, but it has yet to materialize.

Much like my favorite old keyboard, the AnyKey, this one is fully programmable. It even looks to have taken some layout ques from the old AnyKey, with both vertical and horizontal function keys.

But what makes this the coolest keyboard ever? Every key on this keyboard is a stand alone OLED display.

Now, rumors surfacing that it’ll be released on February 1st.

With a little luck, our friends over at GeekExtreme will have a review of this sometime in the near future.

Tags:keyboard, oled keyboard, optimus, programmable keyboard, Technology

2 Responses to “The Coolest Keyboard … Ever”

nate
February 21st, 2007 00:13
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i saw an article on this in time magazine. just one question, do you know where i can get one?
anti-blogger
February 26th, 2007 01:14
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Well, supposedly … It may be available sometime in 2007.

I’m sure I’ll post an update as soon as they can be purchased and I have one sitting in my lap.