optimus, primed

Are you a cool, rich, popular digital artiste (NOT artist) who believes that flashy keyboards are more important than trivial technological advances such as damage-proof CDs, self-filing tax forms and instant cancer cures? Presenting the Optimus Maximus keyboard, with 133 fully customizable OLED keys (which can be programmed individually to do different functions and even change the characters displayed on each key)… and a $1,600 price tag. Hubba hubba. Via the Wired website.

Cool? Yes. Decadent? Certainly. Evidence that technology is evolving much faster than human competence? Absolutely.

“…Visual artists, however, are sure to love it.” O RLY? Not me, because Lordy, it makes my blood boil. I want my damage-proof CDs, dammit! So what, does this mean I’m not fit to be an artist, now? Did a self-indulgent piece of techno-geek wankery just give me an existential dilemma? By gum, it sure did.