Product Details:It's HERE!!!! The fabled Optimus Maximus Keyboard is now in stock here at Performance-PCs.com!Wildly Exciting. Amazingly Functional. The future of keyboard evolution. The Optimius Maximus keyboard has a very appropriate name. It's a work of art! The Optimus Maximus, developed by Art. Lebedev Studio, is the world’s first keyboard where each key on this keyboard is a small OLED screen, a full color 45×45 pixel display capable of moving images! So the letters aren’t painted on the keys, they’re displayed. And they change according to context. For example, press the Caps Lock key, and the letters on the keys actually capitalize. The fully configurable display is particularly useful when configured to work with specific programs like Photoshop or games like Half-life. Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it. 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 sets: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity. The ambient light sensor allows for having the display brightness automatically adjusted up or down depending on whether it is getting dark or light. Additionally, you can adjust brightness manually. Automatic or manual control is available through the Optimus Configurator software. The keyboard has a slot for inserting SD card. All layouts are stored on the SD card to allow key images to change quickly. This is absolutely the greatest keyboard ever made! Features: - The service life of displays and their ribbon cables has been enhanced by making the screens embedded in the keytops motionless—it’s only the transparent caps that are pressed.
- Every button on the keyboard (or, more precisely, a module with a moving cap, a microchip and a display) is easy to remove in order to clean or replace.
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Optimus Configurator | 
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- Keyboards with passive keys can be upgraded with active keys at any time. Say, if you bought a keyboard that has 10 active keys, you can buy however more active keys you need and have them installed!
 
Specifications : Keyboard dimensions | width | 537 mm | depth | 173 mm | height | 38 mm | key | 20.2×20.2 mm | 
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| Each of the 113 displays | technology | OLED | visible area | 10.1×10.1 mm | resolution | 48×48 pixels | frame rate | min. 10 frames per second | colors | 65 536 | viewing angle | 160° |
| Compatibility | Connection | USB 2.0 | Control | Optimus Configurator software | OS | Windows, Mac OS X |
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System requirements: PC with installed OS Windows XP or Vista, with a USB 1.1 (or better 2.0) port; Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher. At least 20 MB of free space on hard drive. At least 256 MB of RAM.
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Manual: http://optimus.artlebedev.com/maximus/OptimusM_mac_pc_eng.doc |
