Art. Lebedev Studio, creator of the Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard, informed that it has started working on a completely new design of Optimus mini, their first portable OLED keyboard with three keys. The new mini 3.0 will feature one small sensor display divided into three (maybe more) zones. It may also have wireless capabilities, but don't count on that for now since it's writen in the wish list. Pictures of the new project will be available soon. Meanwhile you can read our review of the old Optimus mini.

Art. Lebedev Studio has announced an official shipment date for its Optimus Maximus OLED-based keyboard, and an official box design has surfaced after just one model appeared on display at the Wired Store in SoHo, New York. Readers not familiar with the project must know that every key of the Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard is a stand-alone 65k colors 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. It will cost approximately $1600 when it is officially released. The keyboard will ship with a 512MB flash card for storing key sets, which can be swapped or carried around to other Optimus keyboards. Pre-orders for the luxury keyboard will allegedly begin on December 12th.