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Order your Optimus

The (long long) long-awaited Optimus keyboard is finally available to pre-order from Art Lebedev. Back to its original 113-key layout, it can be yours in December for $1564.37 (about £700, which works out at $13.84 per key). Only 200 will be made in the first batch, so act quick if you want one.

Also at the below links are some decent images of the finally-built keyboard. We can see it has USB output, two USB input ports as well as an SD card slot for saving the keyboard layouts. Also provided is a K-Lock for security – you wouldn’t want a $1500 keyboard to go walkabouts in the office, would you?

Link: Art Lebedev

2007
20 May
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The Optimus Maximus

The long-awaited king of keyboards – the Optimus 103-key – has had a name change: enter the Optimus Maximus. The Art Lebedev team were trying to get a working model shown off at CeBIT, but it seems they’re not quite ready yet – oh well, good things come to those that wait…

Along with the name change comes a price change – up from $1200 to $1500, and the Optimus Maximus will be available for preorder in April, with delivery at the end of this year.

For those uncultured amongst you, the Optimus Maximus is a PC keyboard that has a little screen in every key, displaying the function of that key at that time. Pressing Shift shows replaces the lowercase with capital letters (and symbols); and also the keys in different languages can be shown. Read more

2007
14 Mar
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Real Optimus Photo?

Could this be a real photo of the Optimus 103-key keyboard we’ve been waiting for? We know the device will debut at CeBIT, which starts on the 21st March, so we should expect them to have a working model. If it is real, then it certainly looks good.

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Keys now are pretty big (about 2×2 cm), so we have to position them very close to each other. Since pressing four keys instead of one is not good, we’ve raised surface on every key to have usual 4 mm distance between keys’ tops. Surfaces have to be flat because no one wants optical distortions.

Also it has been revealed that a new name ‘it’s not 103 anymore’ is to be announced on the first day of CeBIT.

Source: Optimus Project Blog

2007
07 Mar
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Optimus Software

Those familiar with the long-awaited Optimus keyboard from Art Lebedev studios may be pleased to drool over these screenshots of the configuration software for the device. Although the hardware is still not complete, these pics really do tease. With language selection and macro plugins for the different key-sets, interest in one of the most anticipated products ever is not fading yet.

Screenshots: Livejournal

2007
02 Mar
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