It seems that the company that makes the Rolls is not too happy with China car manufacturers. The 2009 Shanghai auto show showcased a copy of the Rolls Royce for a retail price fractions of the original. The copy cat Rolls is priced under 50k and looks so similarthat it may fool anyone who doen’t work for Rolls. The fake Rolls is called the Geely GE and it is reported that Rolls has their lawyers on the case. I bet they do.

If you spend most of your time at the computer and you have around $1500 burning a hole through your pocket, you may want to take a look at the future of keyboard… Step up to the Optimus line.

The  Art Lebedev company presents a new generation of keyboards.  This is not a keyboard, this is a high tech work of art that may be framed in the homes of true computer nerds.

Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it.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 set: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.

Each key on this ultra cool, and did I mention ultra expensive, keyboard is a screen display. The keyboard keys are not really keys, but individual modules consisting of a moving cap, a microchip and a display, yep, each key has a chip and display in it.

The Optimus Keyboard also has room for many plugs, even a card reader.

If The Optimus is not fancy enough a gadget for your hi tech taste? Check out the companies next generation of keyboards. This other Optimus line is so advanced, it doesn’t even have keys.

The entire keyboard is a video display that can be custom programmed in many configurations, no price tag on this one yet.

Keyless Keyboard of the future

and you can even watch videos on it.