Life and Incredible Adventures of Optimus Keyboards

Our warehouse in New Jersey is fully stocked with our newest keyboard - Optimus Popularis.

Optimus Popularis is a compact keyboard with each key displaying any image and being assigned any function.

Incredibly complex mechanics, many years in production, but we made it.



We are the only design studio in Russia that does something.

http://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus-popularis/

"Future MacBook keyboards may come loaded with in-key displays, capacitive touch sensors" - an article on appleinsider

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/01/future-macbook-keyboards-may-come-loaded-with-in-key-displays-capacitive-touch-sensors


BTW, Optimus Popularis (http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/popularis/) is being mass produced but shipping is slow because we fine tune every unit's mechanics. If you've ordered one, expect it soon.

Finally production of our newest keyboard model - Optimus Popularis - has started.

It takes three hours to cut one aluminum frame for the keys.



Machines work 24/7. First keyboards to be shipped before the New Year.

Hey!

We're back on track with the production of our Optimus Popularis keyboard.

Now testing number of keypresses on one of the very first assembled models.



Popularis is not just an ordinary mechanical keyboard. It has extremely sophisticated, but unnoticeable and hidden mechanics for every key.

Thanks for everyone who came to see us and our keyboard!

To all the skeptics who say that we delay shipping of Popularis, may I remind that none of the multi-million-dollar Western companies could deliver anything close to what we do (just lame 3D concepts). And we are just a design studio in Moscow. Yes, we are the most successful design studio in Russia. But we don't pump oil, our business is design, we are still in Moscow, and all the money we spend on production is not from investors. So plus-minus one year makes no difference in the reality we live in.

Anyway, Optimus Popularis will be shipped this year. Electronics are ready, moulds are done, mass production is about to start.


Here are some links:

http://www.tested.com/tech/452761-ces-2013-art-lebedevs-new-keyboard-screen-keys-top/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/11/engadget-podcast-325-ces-2013-day-3-01-11-2013/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/10/visualized-art-lebedev-optimus-popularis/

http://es.engadget.com/2013/01/13/optimus-popularis-art-lebedev-studio-fotos/

http://noble-press.com/2013/01/art-lebedev-optimus-polaris-demonstration/

http://pctuning.tyden.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26037&catid=1&Itemid=57

http://www.tecmundo.com.br/ces-2013/35046-teclado-camaleao-optimus-popularis-e-exibido-na-ces-2013.htm

http://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2013/01/optimus-popularis-um-teclado-que-vale-por-mil-e-apresentado-na-ces-2013.html

http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.485884

http://www.clubic.com/salon-informatique-tic/ces/actu-ces_2013_art_lebedev_de_retour_avec_l_optimus_popularis-534708.html

http://8080.net/posts/22/17140

http://www.sector.sk/novinka/71923/optimus-popularis-na-ces.htm

http://droider.ru/post/ces-2013-klaviatura-optimus-popularius-ot-studii-lebedeva-16-01-2013/

Come and see the real thing in action.

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/popularis/

We’re at South Hall, upper level, booth #35603.

You are invited to explore our real Optimus Popularis keyboards at 2013 International CES (January 8 through 11, 2013 in Las Vegas).

We’ll see you at South Hall, upper level, booth #35603.

Some videos from the recent professional show called NAB with our line of production and prototype keyboard models.

In English:




In French:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/optimus-led-keyboard-120115.html

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/286746,art-lebedev-studios-adds-new-keyboard-to-optimus-range.aspx

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5385/art-lebedev-studios-expands-optimus-line

http://blog.laptopmag.com/fingers-on-with-optimus-line-of-all-led-keyboards-every-key-is-a-screen