A Wider Net

Engadget published a terrific video of the Optimus Maximus keyboard at CES. You may recall that this keyboard has tiny full-color displays inside each key cap that allows they keyboard to change its appearance for different applications, user preferences, languages, etc.

In this video, the inventor Art Lebedev describes much of the functionality, and makes it really appealing to anyone working with macro-intensive applications (Photoshop, edit software, etc), gamers, etc. As I mentioned a year ago, there must be a way for a company to buy the rights to display their logo on one of those keys and drive traffic to their website, in return for subsidizing the cost of the device. That sponsor could even change that logo remotely to reflect special promotions (Woot! - are you listening? I need a woot-off key!).

I’m assuming that the key labels can change when you depress the ctrl, shift, and alt keys - making the process of finding those obscure macro keys and shortcuts far easier.

Now… if only Mr. Lebedev would send me one to review extensively…