Optimus AUX nearly ready for its $650 price tag
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Nov 18th 2008 7:30AM
posted Nov 18th 2008 7:30AM
Two bits of new information to tell you about. First, Art Lebedev's AUX keypad is expected to be priced at "around $650." Second, that's a final pre-production prototype kicking it live with Art's Verbarius clock in the background. With any luck, this programmable OLED keypad could be ready for a limited production run by Xmas.
with any MORE luck.. you got the price wrong and its alot less than $650!
- Way behind schedule? Check.
- Way overpriced? Check.
- Almost certainly going to have performance issues...like the Optimus 3's annoying hum? Check.
- Uncomfortable keys that require carpal tunnel-inducing levels of force to push? Check.
Folks, we have a positive identification on the inbound bogey. Target designated as "Art Lebedev overpriced crap". Confidence is high. I repeat, confidence is high.
There is a little under $90 worth of practicality here.
You spelled $40 wrong, silly.
Hell yeah. This thing will never be out, don't be f00led :(
/Russian man
@AVG The question is: What price do you put on the awesomeness?
Oh to dream of three of these and an Optimus Maximus.
Three of these and you wouldn't need a Maximus.
This is obviously not gonna work out...
Oh the Maximus... huminahuminahumina...
Whatever happened to the idea he had to have one giant programmable OLED underneath clear keys? I guess it was supposed to give the same effect as the Maximus, but because it was one display underneath all the keys instead of a bunch of tiny displays, it was going to cost a lot less. Well, they said "Under $1000," which is a step ni the right direction, but they have a few miles to go before I'd afford one...
Last I heard Art Lebedev inventer of the Maximus has plans to build such a monster.
Just give out double the $$ and get the full keyboard :p
That's what they're saying.
Clever marketing..
Is the display that displays the time in Russian words included in the price?
Display that displays, very nice. From the department of redundancy department.
Ok so this is a cool concept, but are these people crazy?!! nobody is gonna that much for the keypad let alone a full keyboard
let me get this straight, shortcut keys for $650?
time is money, and i'm sure this will save me loads of time compared to moving my mouse and clicking on a shortcut on the screen.
in fact, in a whole year, this would probably save me a total of 6.50 seconds, which, with the seconds-to-dollar rate being so great, means its only $650 which is A BARGAIN
and it's not like there's a recession on or anything...
Hmmmm the clock reads 7:49am, is there anything super special about the clock other than displaying the time in words in Russian?
Either you used Google translate or you have two typos there because the time shown is actually 17:49, which would be 5:49pm :)
it was my own fail actually, it's too damn early lol.
Translating the Russian it appears to be saying something like:
"I would have preferred to have an iPhone"
or something similar to that.
In fact, it says "Seventeen hours forty nine minutes" O_O
For that price it had better come with a year's supply of bacon.
I bet the picture was taken at 17:49!
$43 a button. Laughable.
I'm hoping the Chinese could rip off their design and come up with a $40 version....
if the Chinese could clone an iPhone this is surely a piece of cake...
About $600 above what I'd be willing to pay... re-donk-u-lous!