OK, forget the Optimus.

[Devlish]

For as much feature slashing and resulting public outcry involved in getting this thing out the door for a "reasonable price," it sure didn't amount to much: Art Lebedev just announce its uber-hyped Optimus 103 keyboard will debut in May of 2007 for $1,200. That's twelve hundies, for those keeping track at home, ten times the current price of the Optimus mini three 1.5. Sure, nobody expected this thing to be cheap, but $1,200 might be asking a bit much. Luckily, prices will be dropping to a "mere" sub-grand in September of 2007, and at that rate we'll be able to afford one of these things right around the time that thought-based typing becomes the input method of choice. Well, at least our dreams of keyboard heaven were fun while they lasted. If you're just crazy enough to try it, you can pre-order the keyboard on December 12th.

£666 (conincedence? I think not) for a black and white keyboard. Hmmmm no.

 

[semi-pro waster]

There is no forgetting about the Optimus here, I hadn't even considered it to begin with. It was always going to be stupidly expensive, there were no guarantees that it would be any better for typing than an ordinary keyboard and having mini LCD screens just offers more things to go wrong so nah it never sounded that good to me.