Video: Optimus Maximus Keyboard Now On Sale!

While it's suffered more than its fair share of problems and delays, Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard is now here and ready to buy!

... that is, if you have $1,589.99 to burn.

Take a gander at ThinkGeek's introduction video, in case you've been living under a rock:

For the rest of us who have a little less expendable income when it comes to input methods, we can just drool at the final spec sheet:

• Revolutionary Keyboard Features a tiny OLED screen on each key. 113 screens total.
• Each key can be individually programmed to perform a series of functions, open an application or run an Applescript (Mac only.)
• Various System Monitor functions can dynamically display on a key including CPU usage, CPU temperature, Network Speed, and Memory Usage.
• Paint images across all keys at once in your image editor of choice.
• Key sets can be linked to an application, so whenever you open that app the appropriate keys come up.
• Use any language with the appropriate key images including Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, and Hiragana.
• SD Card Slot for Storing keyboard Settings.

The fact that Quenya as a compatible language (and the fact that my brain automatically corrected and said Tengwar is the written script, while Quenya is the spoken language, though I speak Sindarin) is a major feature for me, means I'm more of a nerd than most of my friends realise. This keyboard would be dangerous when combined with my linguistics nerd obsession.

The Optimus Maximus works on both Windows and Mac OS X; no word on Linux compatibility, but I'm sure some enterprising hacker out there's working on it as we speak.

Product Page [ThinkGeek]