<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06e947dd-1066-4469-bbfa-f2683623f5dd/4C480676-A17D-40D8-9D87-BDE54B25B160/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thepodest.blogs.keznews.com/2007/05/18/optimus-maximus-keyboard-1500-keyboard/" href="http://thepodest.blogs.keznews.com/2007/05/18/optimus-maximus-keyboard-1500-keyboard/" style="font-size: 11px;">thepodest.blogs.keznews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thepodest.blogs.keznews.com/2007/05/18/optimus-maximus-keyboard-1500-keyboard/"><DIV class="entry"> <P>It’s not often a new keyboard attracts widespread attention - then again, it’s not often a new keyboard costs $1,500.</p> <P>However, the Russian company behind the much-hyped and long-awaited Optimus Maximus keyboard is about to start taking pre-orders from computer owners with more money than sense.</p> <P>The Art Lebeved keyboard justifies its extravagant price tag by placing a small OLPC display behind each of the 113 keys. Specially programmed software will be able to change the picture on each of the 48 x 48 pixel displays - allowing games to display customised shortcut layouts, for example.</p> <P>The first batch of 200 keyboards will start to ship at the end of November, but wealthy typists who are keen to get their hands on the device can place pre-orders from May 20</p> <P><IMG width="500" height="500" src="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-concept/keyb_002.jpg" /></p> <P><IMG width="403" height="387" src="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-concept/psd.jpg" /></p> <P><IMG width="403" height="387" src="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-concept/qua.jpg" /></p> <P>$1500 for a super cool keyboard, anyone interested???</p> <P><A href="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/omg.jpg"><IMG width="441" height="136" src="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/omg.jpg" /></A></p> <P><A href="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/">Official Webiste </A></p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4C480676-A17D-40D8-9D87-BDE54B25B160/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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