Guess not

but can you justify the price?

@DickNervous: They need to recoup 3 years of working for free.

Can you justify why you had to make everything an Apple-ad-esque style?

I like it, Giz, keep it in.

Next up: Bill Gates & Surface. :3

I may have said this before, but consumers aren't normally exposed to the development cycle. Many new products you see marketed took 3, 5, 10 years to develop -- you don't hear about them because it's bad when you announce a product, and all the novelty and excitement is gone 3 years later when the manufacturing process begins. The Optimus Keyboard was made by a design firm who originally published a concept (sorry to ruin the surprise?). You can't really expect an artist to turn over a brand new product in an "On the shelves by christmas!" timeframe.

I say they really should be given more credit for their efforts.

At this point he shoudl rename it to Minimus keyboard.

Russian parts, American parts...ALL MADE IN CHINA!

LEGO Update Please!!!!

HEBREW LETTER (צ) NEXT TO THE "N" TO THE LEFT OF HIS HEAD

AWESOME

That music annoys me.

Too happy.

@strider_mt2k: Taiwan. The line in the movie (Armageddon, uttered Peter Stormare) was Taiwan. Taiwan! TAIWAN! I WILL CASTRATE THE NEXT FOOL WHO GETS THIS WRONG. THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, IN SPITE OF WHAT THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT SAYS. YOU SEE, TAIWAN, UNLIKE CHINA, IS A NATION WHERE WOMEN DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR BABIES BEING ABORTED BY THE POLICE, WHERE FAMILIES DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING EVICTED FROM THEIR HOMES TO MAKE ROOM FOR SOME MODERN-DAY OLIGARCH'S MANSION, WHERE BUSINESSMEN DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PAYING CRIPPLINGLY LARGE BRIBES TO DO ANYTHING, WHERE LIVES ARE NOT RUINED BY GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE AND OPPRESSION. TAIWAN IS A REAL COUNTRY, UNLIKE CHINA, WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SORRY CARICATURE OF THE MIGHTY, PROUD EMPIRE IT ONCE WAS.

TAIWAN, MOTHERFUCKER, TAIWAN! FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

That Optimus Maximus looks pretty cool

Here's how I could justify it:

There are over 100 shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop. Do you have them all memorized?
With The Optimus Maximus, you don't have to. The amount of time saved using those shortcuts will pay for itself in a year.

Someone beat me to it, but yea... screw delays. Justify $1,500 in 15 seconds...

/readies credit card

@Bowler Hat: Yeah buddy, lay it down.

What Bowler Hat said.

Whatever, I just like how he said his name the way it is spelled. (with no spaces.)
artlebedev. Hi, I. am. artlebedev.

@Bowler Hat: Priceless... Your post just made my day.

Taiwan, nothing to worry about except China wiping them off the face of the map. Um, they're part of China, get over it.

@Bowler Hat:

reported

you're all reported & GIZ sucks for censoring posts.

@sven_skaliberskone: calm down before you explode.

For $1,500 dollars that keyboard better forgive me of my countless sins and give me foot massages.

I'm the one doing the quote and he gets credit for the correction.

If you were THAT good you would have hit the post with the quote yourself!

Be faster damn you rant rant rant...whatever.

@strider_mt2k: leave 'em alone, none of them will ever have children.

@OneMHz:
ok here we go
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nope, no justification
put the card away

Can you justify two cables on one keyboard, in 2008?

I was there yesterday right before the Gizmodo crew came over and two people at the booth said that the keyboards would ship in *one* month. What a difference (another month) a day makes. BTW please tell me where to send the pics of Gizmodo interviewing Art that I took yesterday.

commenter SLINGBLADE is crazy paranoid. hold your PC tight and cower in the darkest, most remote corner of the basement. they'll never find you there....

I'll have to say, in person it was much more impressive than I've seen in news write-ups. The keys are a clear plastic that are easy to tap and make the perfect noise. The LED under the clear plastic cover is bright and easy to read. They told me the workmanship comes from many different countries and basically assembled in Taiwan. I took a photo of the LED key itself. See it here: [www.flickr.com]

@Bowler Hat: Oddly enough strider_mt2k's point is still valid. Flippant as it was, you see.

And when you really want to emphasise, use bold tags or something. You may look like your point is worth considering, nawt a flame baiting-esque cap-o-rama.

As for the keyboard - how long until it is in stores? All the pictures, video and nerd-lust in the world will never be able to justify me dropping that much on... anything. Need to get mah dirty paws all over it first.

It's going to need to justify it's own awesomeness - in the flesh.

That Taiwan post is hilarious. I made the mistake once of calling a "Taiwanese" friend of mine Chinese in public. I got educated REAL quick :)

Hint for the masses: People from Taiwan don't like being compared to China, or the Chinese.

The keys use OLED technology. So how long do OLEDs last? What I heard is maybe 2 years or so - that's why OLED displays are only used in cell phones and MP3 players - devices with shorter lifespans and less display usage. I'd hate to spend $10 a key, then have the cost and hassle of replacing each of those keys every 2 years... They're on all the time your PC is on, reducing their lifespan whether you are typing or not.

As for Taiwan, I agree - it's a civilized country - I've been there several times, and it definitely is NOT China. It is also bristling with weapons bought from the USA and France to defend itself against China (including F-16s, Mirage-2000 jets, warships, etc.)

As for the price, in my opinion it is easily justfied. Frankly, $10 a key is extremely reasonable - but I doubt he'll be able to deliver at that $1500 price unless all his development costs are being covered by investors with a long-term outlook. If you think $1500 is high for a full-size keyboard (maybe 120 keys on that thing) with color display switches, then you've not looked at the cost of building, addressing, and backlighting 120 tiny displays, then writing software to make it easy to address the keys and giving that software away for free with each unit.