Optimus OLED Keyboard

[Bloggz]

These puppies are soon to be available (begining of Feb?) can Scan get some in? plzkthx

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

[Odc]

They looks sweet

[Splash]

Oooh - they look sweeeeeeet - how much do you reckon in the UK?

[RedPutty]

If these do come out they will cost a few hundred quid surely.

[specofdust]

No, when they were first shown on slashdot the word was they'd cost no more then a semi-decent mobile phone. I imagine £120 would be the max they could really sell them for, much more and no-one going to buy them. Myself, I'm hoping for a sub-£100 price mark, I'd love one

[Hans Voralberg]

If i remember correctly Raptor have a extremely dull looking keyboard retail for 88, so i guess this one will well be over the 100 mark.

[UKMuFFiN]

Treat. Im due for a new keyboard too, will i be able to justify the price to myself? lol

edit: found it on engadget

"$200 to $300"

[RedPutty]

No, when they were first shown on slashdot the word was they'd cost no more then a semi-decent mobile phone

Ah the word according to slashdot.
They havent been "shown" anywhere never mind slashdot , the renderings of designs have been all over the net and sometimes people didn't realise thats all they were . I would be surprised if the designers even knew back then how much they would cost. It was all the interest after seeing the renders that spurred them into seriously looking into production.

The designers actually say it will cost "It will cost less than a good mobile phone". Now the definition of "good" is wooly to say the least combined with the way mobiles are usually paid for but much would around 120 small OLEDs cost aswell as presumably non trivial wiring and driver circuitry. Thats what makes me think this keyboard will not be cheap.

I am not sure that costing £200-£300 would be a problem when there seems to be a decent market for graphics cards in that price range, in fact this keyboard will likely attract the exact same kind of buyers and could be *the* thing to have. I like the idea of keysavers.

[TiMeZeRo]

that keyboard looks awsome id be scared id press the key to hard and break the lcds

[RedPutty]

found this site thats actually listing them
http://www.russiankeyboards.com/
They say "truecolor" too

[DavidM]

It's a design concept only at the moment.

[davethechamp]

design concept or not, it looks very COOL indeed!!!

dave

[kempez]

They are set to come out pretty soon and if they do - PLEASE SCAN get some in cause I WILL buy one - AWESOME!

[DavidM]

It does look cool, doesn't it

Although I'd love one of them, I'll probably get the Logitech G15 or one of its relations as I suspect it would be less in cost.

[Steve A]

Hi.

Yeah seen these a while back, i did enquire about these, but like dave said the are just concepts atm, and they were quite expensive at around £150+, but im sure if they did become avalible then we would get them in, and i do agree they look sweet as...

sorry specofdust not a chance these will be sub £100 mate, but we can live in hope i suppose ... they will eventually drop when more people start doing them,

Regards

[t_aitch]

yeah these keyboards do look sweet, i like the fact that you can have different game overlays, with colour/game schemes on the keys.

It does look cool, doesn't it

Although I'd love one of them, I'll probably get the Logitech G15 or one of its relations as I suspect it would be less in cost.

yeah id like a g15 too, shame scan hasnt got them in still i ordered the other day and i know its ot, but any ideas when these will be in??

Thanks!