Every now and then, there comes a gadget that is simply worth drooling over. The Optimus Maximus keyboard is one of those gadgets that is a simple Must-Have, if it was a little cheaper i.e. What is so special about the keyboard you say? Just imagine, a keyboard that is customizable to the very limits! Yes it lets you customize each and every key of the very special 113 Keys it boasts!
Customizable Keys and Layout
Yep, Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it. The Optimus Maximus integrates a standalone LED in each of its 113 keys. Each LED has a size of 10.1 x 10.1 mm and offers a resolution of 48 x 48 pixels.
According to Art Lebedev, the keys can not only display images, but videos with frame rates of up to 10 fps as well. Up to 65,536 colors are supported, which can be seen on viewing angles of up to 160 degrees. Image and video layouts are stored on a SD flash memory card, which can be inserted on the back of the keyboard.
Read on for more stunning pictures and specifications
Specifications
Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc.—as well as of any other character sets: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.
System requirements
- PC with installed OS Windows XP or Vista, with a USB 1.1 (or better 2.0) port; Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher.
- 20 MB of free space on hard drive.
- 256 MB of RAM
The service life of displays and their ribbon cables has been enhanced by making the screens embedded in the keytops motionless—it’s only the transparent caps that are pressed.
Every button on the keyboard (or, more precisely, a module with a moving cap, a microchip and a display) is easy to remove in order to clean or replace.
Configurator software allows for programming every button to reproduce a sequence of symbols and editing the image separately for each layout.
Price
A Whopping $462 (approx 371 Euro)
Hmm, come to think of it, wouldn’t be bad if I got one for a gift 
Sizlopedia is the creation of Saad Hamid, a tech enthusiast from Pakistan who started this blog in 2007.
Cool, a must have Keyboard!
Nice, that means I can change from US to lets say a Spanish keyboard with all the accents, to even Japanese. (If it supports Japanese characters.) But its hell lot of expensive. For that I get a PS3!