This isn’t a new technology, but hey I never nailed myself to the bleeding edge. The designers at Art. Lebedev Studios have brought the world the Optimus Maximus fully programmable keyboard:

By fully programmable I don’t mean you have a few macro keys and you can reprogram other keys if you can remember what the hell you changed them to do. This is a keyboard where all 103 standard keys can be changed to any 256 or less character string. AND they give you ten 10 keys to program whatever you want into. It you want to go from QWERTY to Dvorak not a problem, load the profile from the on board SD card, Arabic characters, load the profile. They even have the software to changes the keys as you load up Half-Life, or Photoshop, or any other program you wish.

All that fails to compare to what really makes this keyboard what it is, on the top end version all 113 keys have a 48 x 48 pixel OLED display on them. What could you so with 48 x 48 pixels and over 65 thousand colors per key. Oh yah and it can handle animated gifs too. The possibilities (beyond normal typing cause who spends $1,600 for what a $20 keyboard could do) are endless, but I really want to see some kind of simple movie displayed on one of these, now I just have to be able to afford one. None the less these are pretty awesome and you should go look at them at Art. Lebedev Studios Optimus Keyboard Page