Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  A Really Customizable Keyboard (27 Sep 2005) But Artemy Lebedev, director of Art. Lebedev Studio, a 165-employee design house in Moscow, has conceived of a new keyboard built from tiny screens that can display any image on any key. So good-bye, QWERTY. The Optimus keyboard, as it's known, will allow each key to be customized to feature Chinese, Arabic, hieroglyphics, Adobe Photoshop icons, or hot keys for games. You will even be able to design your own keys, which raises the almost spiritual question: What would your ESC key look like? "Think of it as a desktop with icons," says Lebedev. "You can change the way they look and assign different functions." Article URL: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/99/jetsons-moment.html Read 49 more articles from Fast Company sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Better by design          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy