August 16, 2005

A Keyboard with every key being a stand-alone display A russian company designed a keyboard which keys can display basically anything: from different alphabets to a specialized set of keys for applications or games.
posted by Encephalon 19 years ago
  • Very nice, I'm thinking it would look very good in the dark as well, with all the illuminated symbols. (Would take a bit more than that to justify purchasing it though, and how would it cope with all the cigarette ash my normal keyboard just ignores?)
  • God DAMN I want one!
  • They haven't produced one yet, this is just a render. But logitech have (an admittedly less good looking) one that does sort of the same thing they've just released, I read somewhere.
  • Sweet! laying on of hands Timur Burbayev So is he like a Paladin or something?
  • give the images motion and you've got yerself one cyberdelic relic there maaaan.
  • Key displays are for wussies. Try that bad mutha out if you think you're geek enough. Well are you, punk?
  • Tenacious, ahem
  • Oh, those Russians...
  • Hey, it's not like I made it a dbl-FPP or anything. Cut me some slack.
  • Under the "Frequently Answered Answers" (heh): We hope it will be released in 2006. It will cost less than a good mobile phone. It will be real. Well, that's just super.
  • Is this the Logitech one? Kind of neat especially because there's a SDK available for programming the LCD, but not too useful for gaming I'd say. The Russian keyboard is of course cooler than Siberia.
  • Meeh. Who needs it? I already have keys and buttons I don't use. And then there's z and x and that goofy tilde thing ~, like anybody needs that! Who uses ESC anymore? Frankly, if anyone cares to send me a self-addressed stamped envelope, I'll pull some keys of my board and ship them out to you just to get them off my hands.
  • [cough] Vaporware! [cough] A quote from the Primotech interview "PT: In addition to handling the external design, is your company working on the wiring, electronics, and schematics as well? AL: We do the industrial design and interface engineering on our part. These two are of our specialties." So, in other words, this awesome technology (and yes, it would be awesome) is a concept only. The product (internals, keys, screens on keys) have not been worked on by these guys. They just came up with a concept and made some 3D renders. Unless they actually convince/payan OEM to design AND make the thing, it's vaporware. They waffle a bit about "it'll be porbably made in China. Or Korea." Or somewhere? else hmm> They clearly have no manufacturing partner. I have a Logitech diNovo which is the closest thing yet available, as it has an LCD in the keypad and other cool features. This would be great if it ever happens. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm sceptical that it ever will.
  • *slices a big ol' piece of slack for Tenacious P*
  • Dammit! I want it in ergo!
  • Tenacious, ahem, Were you worried no one else would notice so you decided to draw attention to your original FPP yourself Chyren? I didn't think there was a problem with 'double posting' in comments. There's nothing in the guidelines about it as far as I can see.
  • Ladies, Gentlemen, assorted primates, I believe this discussion is veering away from the serious coveting demanded by this funk-tastic keyboard. That's right, funk-tastic.
  • I love my FCP shortcut keyboard for my G5 and would have paid an extra $500 for something like this for it as well as for iBook since I use Final Cut Pro, Photoshop and After Effects on a regular basis on both machines. Actually, I had an idea similar to this about a year ago, I just didn't have the tech skills to put something like this together.
  • "Were you worried no one else would notice so you decided to draw attention to your original FPP yourself Chyren?" Frankly, yes.