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At times it may seem like the Optimus Maximus Keyboard is some sort of mythical creature that is only seen in photographs, but this video illustrating layout changes proves that it does exist, somewhere. Whether or not we will actually see it in the wild one of these days (in the arms of Bigfoot no doubt) remains to be seen.

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Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing the function it is currently associated with.

Optimus is equally good for any keyboard layouts—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana—and so on to infinity: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions, images etc.

Specifications

Keyboard dimensions: width: 537 mm, depth: 173 mm, height: 38 mm, key: 20.2×20.2 mm.

Each of the 113 displays: technology: OLED, visible area: 10.1×10.1 mm, resolution: 48×48 pixels, frame rate: min. 10 frames per second, 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 10.4.8 or higher.
At least 20 MB of free space on hard drive.
At least 256 MB of RAM.

The service life of displays and their ribbon cables has been enhanced by making the screens embedded in the keytops motionless—it’s only the transparent caps that are pressed.
Every button on the keyboard (or, more precisely, a module with a moving cap, a microchip and a display) is easy to remove in order to clean or replace.

Configurator software allows for programming every button to reproduce a sequence of symbols and editing the image separately for each layout.

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