Awesome! Optimus Mini Three unveiled!!

[Lev_Astov]

Check this thing out! it's so cool! Unveiled moments ago at www.artlebedev.com, it's the Optimus Mini Three, by Art. Lebedev in Moscow. It is a three key board with 96x96 OLED screens in each key. It comes with a program to interface it with your computer programs to display all sorts of things you might want to click. The program is supposedly open-source, so you can do whatever you want with it to make it even better.

I was hoping they would unveil something about the full optimus keyboard today, but I will most likely be buying this anyway! I'm sure I'll find some way to use it in RO, but for now, it's just cool!

By the end of this year there is going to be a full sized keyboard with every key containing an OLED screen like this, but until then, this will do.

 

[Pycckuu]

That guy is awesome, and he's Russian I'm really looking forward to the full sized keyboard, hopefully it won't be a nightmare to clean.

 

[Hyperion2010]

OMG!

That is like the most awesome thing ever!
I currently have 5 (of the same) awesome regular keyboard but this would rock! It can be used for like everything I do on a computer!

 

[[CoR]MiccyNarc]

Crap..if the mini 3 is $100, how much will the full size keyboard cost?

I'm getting one anyway.

 

[Hyperion2010]

$100 for only 3 keys? What kind of price are they expecting on the full keyboard.

thats from another forum, you scare me.

But yeah, I'll get the full sized one. It will rock so hard for gaming. Imagine playing ROO with it and having it change when you got in a tank or when you were an infantryman, heck it might even be able to show you what weapons you had!

Where I would really use it would be with photoshop or with 3dsmax. Forget memorizing key mappings, you can learn them by just looking at the keyboard !

 

[Bobdog]

I think the mini three will be very useful for the average user

....I'm sorry, I had to do it, it was just so easy!

 

[SiFi]

Mac Version, not yet revealed:

But on topic, I'll wait to get the whole keyboard.

 

[Lev_Astov]

I'm getting one anyway.

Amen to that.

 

[Zoring]

Seems pretty ****ing pointless to me

 

[DingBat]

It looks interesting. The only worry I'd have with a full keyboard is the "travel" and feel of the keys.

Remember the first IBM PC keyboards that had that chunky click feel to them? I absolutely hated those keyboards.

I'm a touch typist and can hammer out text at a very high rate. I want a keyboard where key travel is smooth and the keypress pressure is low (if you know what I mean).

 

[[CoR]MiccyNarc]

I like clicky responsiveness. The louder the click and the less smooth the press is the happier I am.

 

[Manstein]

I'm with ding on this one, I like it the same way, with any luck my G15 keyboard will come in, the freaks have been out of stock for a month and a half since I ordered it :/

 

[WickedPenguin]

Wow, neat! Definitely innovative - the first true cool set of features I've seen in a long time.

I do have a reservation though, which pretty much kills it for me.

"Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) in our screens last for 5000 hours of continuous use (after that they don

 

[Witzig]

Well the cheaper Version would be this for windows Users:

Or who wants something more flexible:

OR this small addon:

For Beginners there is that Key Addon: