Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus keyboard is pretty slick, but c'mon, let's be real: blowing over $2,000 on a keyboard is hard to justify. The little brother of the Maximus, the Popularis, is now up for pre-order, and it's just as good looking but way more affordable.

Art Lebedev's next expensive and impressive keyboard, the Optimus Popularis, improves on the keyboards that game before it while adding something nifty and new: a status bar for your computer at the top of the 'board. You'll get weather updates, information about your PC, and more. Oh, and every key is a display, too.

Gamers with magic fingers will snap up this Microsoft SideWinder X4 keyboard, apparently so fast that it can turn off the lights and get into the bed before it gets dark. The secret is "advanced anti-ghosting technology," recognizing even the...

Two weeks ago at Gadgetoff, a day-long conference devoted to life-changing and sometimes totally useless ideas and inventions, technology investor Gary Lauder presented an idea that captured my imagination. He spoke briefly about the history of foot binding, the practice...