You have to check out the Optimus keyboard. Instead of having plastic keys with letters stamped onto them, every key is an OLED and then software dictates what is displayed there. So for instance, if you take the “F10″ key and make it a shortcut to iTunes, you can have it actually display the iTunes logo instead of “F10″.

Think about that one…. When you’re using Photoshop, instead of it displaying the alphabet on every key, it could display the icons for each of the Photoshop tools that the keys are mapped to. For kids games, it could have the save keys highlighted as well as the print key and quit key. When you’re teaching keyboarding, instead of putting plastic on to hide the keys, you could just turn them all blank! Or just have the letters visible that you want to be teaching!

VERY cool. Don’t know the cost yet and it hasn’t been formally released, but I want one.

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John Blake
7/17/2005

Steve,

Would have to be very expensive. Maybe they will have a booth at next year’s NECC. I need them for my learning disabled students. Need to be able to remotely access them from my console with a mild electric shock so when they switch to the DOOM mode then I could get their attention. I had a student last school year that would fall asleep in computer lab and put his head on the keyboard. I could call it “F13″ for “unlucky for if you get off task.”

John

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