Sunday, December 30th 2007
Art. Lebedev Exposes Touchscreen Concept Keyboard
Art. Lebedev Studio today prototyped a keyboard design that could stand in as a completely flexible display. The Optimus Tactus would improve on the yet to be shipped Maximus keyboard with touch input. Instead of an OLED screen built into every key, the Tactus would use one giant touchscreen that would not only permit keys to change in size and function, but would also allow features such as video playback overlay. As a matter of fact the release date for Tactus is set to be 01.01.2008, but the keyboard is still considered a concept and may not be released ever.
Sources:
Electronista, Art. Lebedev Studio
49 Comments on Art. Lebedev Exposes Touchscreen Concept Keyboard
Be great if you can save profiles to it, and have a button to swap them. ( so that you can take it to another PC, and it remembers the profiles)
If you bash away like a madman on a typewriter, this wont work so well - but if you can get soft enough to just brush the keys (laptop or softer) then you wont have any issues.
as for typing on one of these, i think u'd have to look at the keyboard alot more due to not having a physical point of refrence whilst typing link on a proper 'buttond' keyboard, be it slim or not.
imho, the most suitable consumer for these are people with way too much cash to burn, who are desperate to show off how big their e-penises are :laugh:
But nice thinking nun the less! :toast:
Here's how the Maximus is coming along...