It certainly seems... friendly.

Taste the rainbow... or something... :3

SOOOO not worth 1000+ bucks. So not worth 500+ bucks. In fact, it would be a stretch making this a 100+ upgrade. Also SSD actually have a purpose: they take less power, last longer and are generally faster. This just changes lower case letters to upper case letters when you hold down shift..soo...no...

mmm battery life.

Walking someone thru the steps to do something on that keyboard could get interresting.

Hold down Barney + Jenna Jameson and then tap Richard Nixon. Okay, now it should ask you for your user name and password. You're kinda screwed at that point, since I don't remember what each letter key looks like, but after you've entered the info, press the doggy-style key

All it's missing...

Wow that keyboard is totally gay, like really, lol.

isn't it cheaper to just build one big touchscreen and render the whole keyboard on it?

and yea... battery "life"

@KoRnholio8:
no haptic feedback == sucky

actually an e-ink keyboard wouldn't be bad - and wouldn't suck so much battery juice, either. And i believe they're working on color e-ink displays as we speak...

@KoRnholio8:

Have you ever actually tried typing on a touchscreen with your fingers?.

They'd get jacked up in under 5 minutes. The reason people are still using keyboards and why such expensive options as the Maximus are even thinable in times like these are because it requires significantly less energy to hit a key on a keyboard (OLED or otherwise than it is to hit your finger against a glass or plastic screen.

@BLAKELEY:

Haha. This laptop would have matched Apple's old logo perfectly.

then lets forget all this nonsense and get those thought-recognition machines working....

It would help in dark situations if the keys are backlit . Of course it would suck the whole juice out oof the battery withing minutes - but that's a different story.

Most ridiculously overpriced laptop ever? Isn't that already the Macbook Air?

this would look great with the unicornized background...

@Ybother:
ive often wondered why one can't get a keyboard with the keys written in that radioactive stuff they use in high end watches, what is that stuff...? ah yes, Luminox... why can't we get that? Cancer be damned!

@cumbirnard: Yes. Yes it is. This is a close second only.

I'll buy it when the keys can collectively render the surface of a pond with ripples emanating from the keys I press, and interacting with each other correctly. Or maybe the keyboard has a background of cement, and each time I press a key, it makes a crater and sends particles of cement flying, like The Hulk typing on a cement keyboard.
That would be awesome.

@workingonyourinvoice:
your second idea is solid gold man.

That would make up for the lack of a backlit keyboard on my TZ (pictured in the concept) quite well. And short of two fingered scroll make me feel fantastic about my switch to TZ from MBP.

Estimated T-minus time before Art.Lebedev "announces the release" of a laptop with the patented Optimus Keyboard design: 7 days

Estimated T-minus time until a working unit is produced:
7 years + ...

WARNING!
Error detected...
Cause of error found:
Vaporware likelyhood = 100%

that looks great, but will it blend?

@BLAKELEY: If Apple put out an Optimus-equipped Macbook, could Gizmodo write the Ultimate Article and cease forever?

That would be a real shame. I'd miss the occasional "retro/steampunk" article.

@CaseyG:
also the dildos - giz ought to have dildo thursdays or something.

@nutbastard: It would have to be dildo Saturday or Sunday for us office drones to not miss out on the fun.

@workingonyourinvoice: Head over to Engadget, where every day is dildo day!

@nutbastard: 2 things:

me + finger cancer= no sex life.

Also: dildo Thursdays? Great, thanks for making me homesick for the one gay bar back home.

@frndlybnny:
nah, finger cancer just means your digits have love bumps (love bumps, tumors, what's in a name?)

A laptop with the fruitiest keyboard ever and a name like an imitation Transformer?

Pass.

Have I told you guys about my concept laptop? It's got a grenade launcher built in!

I bet the keyboard would end up looking like crap, just like with the maximus keyboard, concept was a cream dream but in actuality shit!

Going to be a wonderful 9000$ vaporware laptop. Yay!

Ah. So when I get tired of having a lowsy typing experience at my desk, I can have a lowsy typing experience on the road. At least I'll still be able to have my lesbian sex hot-key assigned.

Oh yeah, and by the time this hits the streets, USB won't exist anymore.

If I was going to spend a rediculous amount of money on a laptop I'd want that keybord to be included.

What happens when the laptop's OS is working fine, for once, and the OLED drivers fritz and start randomly reassigning key mapping? What key will you hit?

@Kingteddybear:

That's easy. The ANY key!

Imagine the viruses you could give the laptop user...

...schizophrenic keys!

Now it´s ..QWERTYUIOP
Oh noes....QWERYTIUPO
Bollocks...UYTREWQIOP

We could call it the "Enigma Crypto Keyboard" keys that change according to an algorithm! Wee!

No. That is all.

macbook air who?

if i'm gonna overpay for a laptop because it's fashionable, baby optimus pwns unneeded thinness.