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Optimus Maximus keyboard

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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.

Order Optimus Maximus

Price: 44,000.00 p.

approx. 1864.35 US$

approx. 1186.20 €

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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