Task: | Design a keyboard with screens embedded in each button. |
Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it.
Comfortable low-profile keys and standard keyboard layout with full-size F-keys and number pad spillage. Dell 27 LED Backlit LCD Monitor SE2719H IPS Full HD 1080p. The original design concept that caught a lot of hype around LCD keyboards was from a Russian design studio called Art. Lebedev, with their “Optimus” keyboard design, plus a few more variations they’ve come up with since. AFAIK these never actually went on sale, though early previews of prototype Ma. Continue Reading. 60% Keyboard with Dedicated Arrow Keys, White DIERYA DK63W Wireless Wired Mechanical Gaming Computer Keyboard True RGB Backlit Bluetooth 4.0 Programmable, N-Key Rollover for Windows Mac - Red Switch 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,163. Skip to 10:18 for a typing demonstration. As is customary now, we end the year with a very special keyboard; the Optimus Maximus by Artemy Lebedev. Later models replaced this with a numeric keypad, and moved the function keys to 24 keys at the top of the keyboard. The original IBM PC keyboard (PC/XT, 1981) had 10 function keys (F1–F10) in a 2×5 matrix at the left of the keyboard; this was replaced by 12 keys in 3 blocks of 4 at the top of the keyboard in the Model M ('Enhanced', 1984).
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 set: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.
Specifications
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System requirements
PC with installed OS Windows XP, Vista or 7, with a USB 1.1 (or better 2.0) port; Mac OS X from 10.5.1 to 10.10.5.
At least 20 MB of free space on hard drive.
At least 256 MB of RAM.
In order to extend the service life of the displays and avoid using cables that may be vulnerable to wear, the screens embedded in the keytops are fixed—it’s only the transparent caps that are pressed.
Every button of the keyboard (or, more precisely, a module consisting of a moving cap, a microchip and a display) can be easily removed to clean or replace.
Configurator software enables users to program each button to reproduce a sequence of symbols and edit images separately for each layout.