HAHAHAHA. Ehem. How about someone just make some cutsie little stickers, (the ones that animate when you move back and forth?) for the keyboard you have now.

Thats about $10. Plus, if you are on acid, or drinking, its all the same. And you have $390 left for more beer.

Done.™

Nick, you're missing the point.

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

This keyboard is great!

I can already see people complaining after having thumped so hard on the keys that they broke :|

Cool keyboard. For $400 ish? not so much. I'd probably pay $100-$200 for it max.

It certainly is pretty - hopefully its feel is as nice as its look.

It'll cost less than a good mobile phone in RUSSIA.

Judge- thanks for the URL- I didn't get it at first. Obviously, this would be a niche keyboard-ergonimically, it absolutely sucks for typing ... but then, again, I can see a Quake fanatic going ga-ga over it all.

Photoshop? Naah. Tool sets on the second monitor and a graphics tablet with express keys and touch strip are obviously superior- and can be cheaper as well.

>"less than a good mobile phone."

I've yet too see a mobile phone worth $400. And for less than a good mobile phone, I'd like to see a $200 price point.

Note that the Optimus-103 doesn't have those extra ten keys that you see in the upper left picture-- ten keys that might make this worth the $400. Those keys will (someday) be on the Optimus-113.

if he means pre-contract price, then i'm thinking $350.

but for $200, this would be a beautiful little gem. not to mention one i could ask for as a birthday gift, along with a pirated copy of vi...uhmm, a new operating system.

Are these keys programmable, or does it just change the graphic? I'd probably buy this if I could make keyboard macros (a la Nostromo n52), otherwise, it's probably not worth it.

Maybe it's less than that $300,000 Black Diamond mobile phone.

Am I the only person on the planet who has noticed that the enter key is IN THE WRONG PLACE?

Someone really ought to tell the art.lebedev guys that if you're going to release a keyboard in the U.S. it kind of needs to have a U.S. layout. Oh, wait, I emailed them more than a year ago pointing out that U.S. touch typists will not accept a keyboard that puts the pinky finger more than a half inch further away from the the enter key than every other keyboard they have ever typed on.

Idiots.

You guys havent heard? The optimus keyboard is being delayed to optimize its Duke Nukem Forever control scheme.

Ok, so there is something nice in the intention of the idea behind the concept.

But this baby is fat. Check out the mockup they're showing somewhere on the blog. And it's heavy. And i doubt it's really durable. And i'm not even beginning to think how much fuss would mean, trying to replace one of'em glowy shiny keys. Okay, oleds are not that expensive nowadays, but those are custom.

Plus (or rather minus) - i don't quite see this thing going wireless pretty soon.

All'n'all, an admirable exercise, but that's not really good design. Flashy? Maybe.
Good luck to Lebedev in his endeavours, and i truly hope that one day someone will find a way to do this properly.