Art Lebedev taking wares to brick and mortar

Be still, our hearts! Judging by a post (penned in Russian) over at the studio's Livejournal, we could be seeing a number of Art Lebedev retail outlets popping up over the next year and change. From what we can glean, (more) B&M locations could surface in a plethora of Russian cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, etc.) along with one in New York (!). Granted, we get the impression that the "stores" may resemble holes-in-the-wall within other establishments (rather than dedicated structures), but we 'spose only time will tell. Camp out for the next edition of the Optimus Maximus right here in the Big Apple? Why, of course.

[Thanks, Dmitriy]

[andrew wilson @ Apr 11th 2008 7:39AM]

They should make each floor tile contain an OLED screen, even though no one looks at the floor when they walk. And then they could charge you $50 to get in. The Retailus Maximus!

[rumblejazz @ Apr 11th 2008 8:00AM]

Geography for the win!

[Dmitriy @ Apr 11th 2008 8:13AM]

They actually have a lot of cool stuff besides that dumb keyboard:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/id/

[jackcutts @ Apr 11th 2008 10:15AM]

Yeah but if you buy something they'll never actually ship it to you. Like the Verbarius clock which has been delayed for months.

[Ellianth @ Apr 11th 2008 10:46AM]

That is the price one pays for announcing products that they haven't even started working on.

For example: Announcing the shiney new time machine (which can take you back in time!!!) when all I have is a little painting I made in MS Paint.

[jackcutts @ Apr 11th 2008 10:57AM]

How much do you want for that? Sounds interesting.

[Dmitriy @ Apr 11th 2008 11:13AM]

AFAIK Verbarius has been released over a year ago. It's currently out of stock, not delayed.

[jackcutts @ Apr 11th 2008 11:10AM]

Well tell that to the impostor who sent me the email saying:

"Do you remember that Verbarius clock you ordered with the ship date of March 31? Well, March 31 = June 15."

[Dmitriy @ Apr 11th 2008 11:16AM]

Really? When did you order it? Was the e-mail from art.lebedev? I hoped they'd be decent enough to call things as is, without sinking to crap like this.

[Bobs @ Apr 11th 2008 9:10AM]

What the heck is the Vector? whatever it is, im sure it has OLED screens, and is very expensive.

[c88lman @ Apr 11th 2008 9:24AM]

vector - http://store.artlebedev.ru/office/vector/

[Dmitriy @ Apr 11th 2008 10:21AM]

you know there is an english version?
http://store.artlebedev.com/office/vector/

[Ellianth @ Apr 11th 2008 10:51AM]

I must have missed something. They really expect people to pay $250 for a bent piece of plastic?!?! It's not even functional. man...

[Dmitriy @ Apr 11th 2008 11:06AM]

You missed your glasses, that was rubles. It is 9 green ones.

[dahood12 @ Apr 11th 2008 10:16AM]

They are aware of what BM stands for here in the States right?

At any rate, the Optimus Maximus is one of those products that I would really sh*t myself over. At least if someone bought it for me...

[CaptSaltyJack @ Apr 11th 2008 10:41AM]

Tackboy!

[FThorn @ Apr 11th 2008 11:46AM]

the russian C is an english S

so, it's taSk votch

[n8diggity @ Apr 11th 2008 10:59AM]

The Russian text says that the stores will have different names in each city, since Lebedev hates all rules of branding and trade...

And I found this link -
http://store.artlebedev.ru/offline/y/
It says that this will be for the store in Rostov.

[n8diggity @ Apr 11th 2008 11:01AM]

Ellianth -
That vector thing was 250 rubles - about 9 bucks.

[WorldCTZen @ Apr 11th 2008 12:45PM]

In post-Soviet Russia, Art Lebedev stores come to you!