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Hands On With Optimus Maximus Keyboard

Click to viewWe’ve had video and pictures of the Optimus Maximus keyboard, but now we’ve got the first hands on with the mythical layout-changing input device. Is it as good as all the hype’s built it up to be? No. It’s better. https://gizmodo.com/first-video-of-the-optimus-keyboard-actually-working-an-325615 The units we got to play with were both fully working—one of…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony 27-inch OLED Prototype Gallery

Along with announcing that its 11-inch OLED TV is coming to the US (for a mere $2,500), Sony also unveiled a much larger 27-inch OLED prototype. It has a one million-to-one contrast ratio, and the panel is less than 10mm deep—the screen itself is the thickness of three credit cards stacked. The resolution is 1920…

Television Noah Robischon

Sony’s 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV Finally Ships in January for $2,500

The Pitch: Sony finally brings their OLED TV (which we’ve been seeing and hearing about forever) to market at $2,500 in January. It’s the first OLED TV in the US, and takes advantage of OLED’s 1 million to 1 contrast ratio, low power consumption, and rapid response time. The Catch: It’s only 11-inches, which means…

Tech News Jason Chen

Digital Foci Pocket OLED Photo Frames

The Basics: OLED Picture frames! The 2.8-inch screen has a wrist strap, and works as an alarm clock and calendar. The 1.5-inch version has a keychain. They hold 3000 and 120 photos, and have 10000:1 and 1000:1 contrast ratios, respectively. Rechargeable. The Catch: The $50 1.5-inch screen form factor is the one I want, but…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Apple Files Patent for OLED Dynamic Keyboard, Awaits Angry Letter from Lebedev?

Apple might be working on a dynamic keyboard with OLEDs behind each movable key. Apple’s patent application for this OLED keyboard hid in the background since March of last year, and the exciting thing is it looks a whole lot like Art Lebedev’s as-yet-unreleased Optimus keyboard. While this kind of flexibility is right in line…

Tech News Charlie White

Sony’s 11-Inch OLED TV For Sale on eBay

It’s undeniable that Sony’s XEL-1 OLED TV is a lovely piece of tech, but the only problem is that it can’t be found in the US. One finally surfaced on eBay, making it available to American consumers – or a handful of bidders at least. eBay seller Kyotostyles2 put three of these TVs up for…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Samsung Set to Show Off 31-Inch OLED Screen at CES 2008

It looks like Samsung is upping the ante in the OLED world, although not quite like we predicted. The Korean manufacturer has announced that it is developing a 31-inch OLED TV with a thickness of just 4.3mm, and will be showcasing it in just two weeks’ time, at CES. More details of the AM-OLED display…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Samsung, Please Show Off Your 40-Inch OLED Display at CES

Old, busted and tiny: Sony’s 11-inch OLED display. New hotness: Samsung’s 40-inch OLED display, the largest in the world. Previous reports held they were showing this monstrosity off at CES, but the latest has Samsung saying they might hose us with a punier 31-inch model because “the bigger and pricey one could face difficulty in…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Sony’s OLED TV Stripped Naked For the World to See

You already saw the unboxing, but that was like thumbing through a Victoria’s Secret catalogue. For the real hardcore stuff, you have to see this gorgeous XEL-1 OLED with its downright obscene 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and sexy 3mm frame without any covering whatsoever. Don’t tell us it doesn’t turn you on. Hit the jump for…

Television Sean Fallon

Exclusive Video: Flat Flexible OLED Screen Survives Hammer Pounding

What happens when you smash a super-thin OLED display with a hammer? Last week, Wilson and I learned all about OLEDs, but after our factory tour we were left with that one nagging question. Lucky for us, mystery solved, as UDC has the answer courtesy of this video demonstration. Personally, I’d like to see this…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Sony’s Sexy XEL-1 OLED Display Gets Unboxed

If you are pretty good with the old reading sills, you’ll know from the title that Sony’s XEL-1 OLED display just had an unboxing worth perving over. It might look like a bad day at Abu Ghraib prison from the top photo, but click through to see the slinky screen in all its anorexic, model-like…

Tech News Haroon Malik

First Video of the Optimus Keyboard Actually Working and Looking Awesome

Click to viewWe just got some hangtime with Art.Lebedev’s non-vaporous Optimus keyboard at the Wired Store in SoHo, NYC, and it is as shiny, pretty and luxuriously pointless as billed. Enjoy the video, then check out our impressions and a gallery: https://gizmodo.com/art-lebedev-releases-pics-of-newly-named-optimus-maximu-244481 As you may know, each key is a mini OLED screen, one that…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Video: Optimus Maximus Changing Layouts

At times it may seem like the Optimus Maximus Keyboard is some sort of mythical creature that is only seen in photographs, but this video illustrating layout changes proves that it does exist, somewhere. Whether or not we will actually see it in the wild one of these days (in the arms of Bigfoot no…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Optimus Keyboard Goes Sub-$500 and Sub-$1000, But Gimped at Launch

The Optimus keyboard team brings good news and bad news today, with word that they’re going to have sub-$500 and sub-$1000 models (not just one $1564 keyboard), but the software will not be ready for launch. That’s not to say that you’ll buy a $500 keyboard that you can’t use; it’s just “functionally limited,” and…

Tech News Jason Chen

I Honor the Place Where the MARK Bookmark and I Become One

Avnish Gautam has designed an amazing concept bookmark that lights up at night and covers the area you’re reading. The MARK uses flexible OLED technology on a thin piece of plastic to illuminate the reading area to your preferred brightness. I know when I’m reading the Fake Steve Jobs book, the only thing that irritates…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Sony US Prez Talks Stateside Rolly and OLED TV, Plus Apple, Blu-ray and More

UPDATED Today at an executive round table we went to in NYC, Sony Electronics president Stan Glasgow (center) and Sony consumer sales president Jay Vandenbree (left) answered some burning questions. When is the oh-so-sexy OLED TV coming to the US? “It could be before the end of the calendar year,” says Glasgow, citing a dependence…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Samsung OLED Product Roadmap Shows 40-inch TVs in 2010

OLED fans will have to be patient, as Samsung’s roadmap for the technology shows them only in small handheld devices for this year and next, ramping up to laptop and desktop displays in ’09 and finally 40-inch TVs in 2010. After these TVs invade your home and take all your money in the process, Samsung…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Samsung Demos World’s First Bendable OLED Screen

Samsung is cranking out the ideas with OLED displays lately, and now adds the world’s first bendable OLED screen to its stable of coolness. This 4.3-inch screen’s rocking 480×272 pixels, and Samsung claims it’s capable of a contrast ratio of 1000:1. Demonstrated at the FPD International 2007 Forum going on now in Yokohama, Japan, this…

Gadgets Charlie White

Wide VGA OLED for Handhelds on the Horizon From Samsung

Samsung is currently hard at work on what should be the first OLED display capable of wide VGA (800×480) resolution on a screen that measures as little as 3.08 inches across. Quite a leap when you consider that up until now, the best manufacturers could muster was a quarter VGA (320×240) on displays of that…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Passes FCC Level Without Cheat Codes

In case any of you still thought the Optimus Maximus was all a big alien autopsy-esque hoax, the fact that the preliminary version of the keyboard just passed FCC testing should be enough to put your doubts on hold. The current status, non FCC-wise, has their OLEDs approved for mass production back in September and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Hands On With Optimus Maximus Keyboard

Sony 27-inch OLED Prototype Gallery

Sony’s 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV Finally Ships in January for $2,500

Digital Foci Pocket OLED Photo Frames

Apple Files Patent for OLED Dynamic Keyboard, Awaits Angry Letter from Lebedev?

Sony’s 11-Inch OLED TV For Sale on eBay

Samsung Set to Show Off 31-Inch OLED Screen at CES 2008

Samsung, Please Show Off Your 40-Inch OLED Display at CES

Sony’s OLED TV Stripped Naked For the World to See

Exclusive Video: Flat Flexible OLED Screen Survives Hammer Pounding

Sony’s Sexy XEL-1 OLED Display Gets Unboxed

First Video of the Optimus Keyboard Actually Working and Looking Awesome

Video: Optimus Maximus Changing Layouts

Optimus Keyboard Goes Sub-$500 and Sub-$1000, But Gimped at Launch

I Honor the Place Where the MARK Bookmark and I Become One

Sony US Prez Talks Stateside Rolly and OLED TV, Plus Apple, Blu-ray and More

Samsung OLED Product Roadmap Shows 40-inch TVs in 2010

Samsung Demos World’s First Bendable OLED Screen

Wide VGA OLED for Handhelds on the Horizon From Samsung

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Passes FCC Level Without Cheat Codes

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