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If you're in production or art and really need this for your work, you can go ahead and grab it now. $1500 is easily expensable, and if it helps your productivity by even a small percent, it's totally worth it.

As impressive as we find the Optimus Maximus keyboard in concept, the $1,600 price tag overwhelms its real world benefits. We can only recommend this keyboard to those most charmed by this unique keyboard's novelty.

Pocket-Lint had a first look at this king of keyboards and can honestly say we were impressed, it's just a shame it's so expensive.

We have to applaud Art Lebedev for bringing the product to market. Unfortunately, simply creating a product isn't where the story ends, it also has to be worth buying and here is where the Optimus Maximus falls down. Its astronomical price means it's really only a toy for the very rich.

As a piece of art and a technological achievement, it certainly deserves credit, but for typing papers, programming, or even just IMing friends, the Optimus Maximus is a complete dud. And with a going price of $1,877.43 USD, “all show and no go” just doesn’t cut it.