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Optimus keyboards: Maximus
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Optimus Maximus keyboard

Overview   Downloads   Demo   Questions and answers   Press clippings  


Problem: Design a keyboard with screens embedded in each button.

Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it.

Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc.—as well as of any other character set: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.


Specifications

Keyboard dimensions

length

537 mm

width

173 mm

height

38 mm

key

20.2×20.2 mm

Each of the 113 displays

technology

OLED

viewable area

10.1×10.1 mm

resolution

48×48 pixels

frame rate

10 frames per second minimum

colors

65 536

viewing angle

160°

Compatibility

Connection

USB 2.0

Control

Optimus Configurator software

OS

Windows, Mac OS X

System requirements
PC with installed OS Windows XP or Vista, with a USB 1.1 (or better 2.0) port; Mac OS X 10.5.1 or higher.

At least 20 MB of free space on hard drive.

At least 256 MB of RAM.

Good buy

Order Optimus Maximus

Price:  44,000.00  p.
approx. 1564.72  US$
approx. 1257.14  €



Release date: 15.03.2007

Cast:

art director and designer
Artemy Lebedev
industrial designer
Timur Burbayev
modeler
Alexander Pozdeev
engineers
Maxim Pavlukhin
Grigori Annenkov
programmers
Konstantin Morshnev
Vadim Kalinsky
Max Lukashenya
Denis Gryzlov
did their bit
Anna Kleymenova
Sergey Aleinikov
Roma Voroneshski
managers
Andrey Voronkov
Dmitri Tsoi

In order to extend the service life of the displays and avoid using cables that may be vulnerable to wear, the screens embedded in the keytops are fixed—it’s only the transparent caps that are pressed.

Every button on the keyboard (or, more precisely, a module consisting of a moving cap, a microchip and a display) can be easily removed to clean or replace.


Optimus Configurator

Configurator software enables users to program each button to reproduce a sequence of symbols and edit images separately for each layout.



Patents pending.



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