I saw a prototype for this a few years ago and thought it was a genius idea. It’s a keyboard that has OLED screens built into the keys. With the bundled software this means you can change the layout of the keys, what the keys do and even what the keys look like. I saw the prototype using a layout designed for Quake, but ANY software program or game could use a customised keyboard layout.
“Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc.—as well as of any other character sets: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.”
Priced at around $400 its a lot to pay for a keyboard, and I’m not sure if they’re available over here yet but at least you know that you can change the layout to UK with ease!
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