Wow – this is an amazing piece of industrial design, and one that I hope comes to the marketplace sometime soon: the universal Optimus keyboard has a tiny LCD screen in each key — the label on each key changes according to the keyboard’s use, so it can easily be configured for any language or application.
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File that under “why didn’t I think of it.” On second thought, it’s a really terrific idea, which explains why I didn’t think of it.
I’m especially impressed with forward thinking use of display technology, not LCD as you stated but (even better) OLED. I’ve done a little research on OLED and just wait ’till they can make a TV out of it.
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