RE: Optimus Keyboard

["Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith

It's a prototype,  and it has colour OLED displays on every keycap - and I
want one ;)

(Did you notice that in the pictures the keyboard is configured as an Apple
one)

I had a demo of some LCD display keycaps 5 or 6 years ago,  they were a bit
wobbily for keyboard use but I wanted them as a custom keypad that you
could
use alongside a conventional keyboard.  I think they are still available
<http://tinyurl.com/c8hwn> 
& http://www.screenkeys.com/

The SKI ScreenKeys dispplay were/are pretty dumb, the display controllers
were serial load and you had to shift in an entire pixel map plus a couple
of extra bits for the backlight colour.  IIRC they had a data in and out so
you could just daisy chain all keys and send the pixel display map as a
single bitstream.

Dave





>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 15 July 2005 11:05
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Optimus Keyboard
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>> Have a look at this keyboard.  Very nice! Each key is a
>> stand-alone display
>> which can change depending on what you doing.  Just look soooo
>> nice.  I want
>> one NOW!!!  Don't think they'll be available for a while and I'd
>> say it will
>> be expensive.
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>> http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/
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>VERY NICE :-)
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>Rapid used to stock some switches that had Monochrome LCD
>displays in them
>and were lit by LED. I always fancied having a play with them
>but I think
>the switches were over ?25 each and the development kit was about ?200.
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>The keys on that keyboard appear to be full colour LCD with white LED
>backlight. Now if something like that could be mass produced so that it
>became really affordable it would be great for HA use.
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>Keith
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