Most Anticipated Product Rollout... Ever?

Who among us with an Internet connection and a pulse could forget last summer's most famous piece of then-vaporware, the Optimus Keyboard? The answer: No one. Everybody in the entire world has been looking disgustedly down at their current keyboards since seeing the Optimus, with its hundreds of keys that are also LED screens, each one of which can be customized to display different things and perform different functions, depending on the program or the operating system. Well, do we even have to tell you that today's top link refers to a rollout date for the Optimus? Can you even contain the unbridled, childlike excitement bubbling up inside you at the prospect of owning such a keyboard? The answer to both: no. Here it is, with an expected ship date of Feb. 1. Can they do it? Can they really transform imagination into reality in less than a month? Everybody and they mama hopes so. Engadget already has its credit card out, they write, and this guy is going Harry Potter-style crazy over the prospect of getting this keyboard. That's understandable, though. (And there's still no word whether you can stream text or video across all the LED keys, though this says individual keys could be animated...)

Posted by Philip Ewing at January 9, 2006 11:17 AM

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