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Picking, strangely, LiveJournal as his venue, Artemy Lebedev of much-critiqued OLED keyboard company Optimus has decided to blog about the development of the every-key-is-a-display input device. Having finally delivered a working unit - albeit with only three keys - Lebedev today publicised the launch this week of a new product, the Upravlator, to his email mailing list, calling the mysterious device “our new keyboard”. Lebedev has already revealed that it will connect to a second monitor port, though it’s unlikely to be the sole connection, and that music engineers, graphic designers and and video editors will be particularly thankful for it.
With this not particularly telling photo of a mock-up giving away, well, not much at all, we wait with slightly bated breath.
Life and Incredible Adventures of Optimus Keyboards
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Please note that this device is probably NOT “another OLED tease”. On his blog, the company making this device says “[the Upravlator] will be plugged into your second monitor port. It will be as fast as LCD display may be.” This reference to fast LCDs suggests it is LCD-based, not OLED-based.
Furthermore, we see them moving away from OLEDs with their decision to use non-OLED displays in the full 113-key keyboard. Reference:
“And we had to make one very important decision during the engineering: we will not use OLED screens for the Optimus-113″