D.M.W.T
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/181d/
 
I can see by reading the description that this keyboard has a lot of cool features, but in my opinion they do not add up to $2400.00 worth of coolness. Does anyone have any REAL thoughts as to why the price is so high and not just jokes? I am honestly curious if there is a justifiable reason for the price.
 
P.S. I checked with the site and it is NOT a typo.

The reason is right there in the description 
 
Each of its 77 keys shows a half-inch-square display of your choosing and does what you want it to, programmed through a piece of software called the Configurator. So if you're in Excel a lot, you can plug one of your macros right into a key for easy access. It's basically 77 customizable shortcut keys with coordinating display for each application you want to program.
And the area between the numeral keys and the function keys, which we currently use as a crumb catcher or a place to put our pen and then subsequently lose it, becomes a display bar. Let it show which keyboard layout you're in. Let it show timely push updates from various applications, like weather services, stock tickers, server alerts. Let it show in 262,144 vivid colors the crumbs that would have been there were it not.
 
Lots of screens. Lots of colors. Lots of money.
 
Feel free to use my tagline for the product.

It has to do with the key count and the cost of each key used in it. The price gets exponential.

Is it Gold plated?   I like the concept...Nice construction even...But, no way would I ever pay $2400 for a keyboard...That's even pushing it for an entire build...(Just did a 4770K/Z87 OC Force build for $1700 before vid cards)...

Yeah that one should be cheaper, In fact it was suppose to be "only" a 1K cost keyboard.
 
Anybody remember the Optimus Maximus? That was the first gen, It had a whole lot more buttons and cost 1,600 bucks. http://reviews.cnet.com/k...5-3134_7-33136340.html
 
It was even announced at 1,100
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Optimus-Keyboard-LCD-Screens,14365.html

The only real reason to go this way is for tactile feedback on the keystrokes. Otherwise, just do the same thing with a touchscreen. Conceptually, this is going to get surpassed by tablet tech.

Thank you for the replies. Some of the things said make sense, I was just blown away seeing this price while cruising a site meant more for toys then high end keyboarding.
 
Side note I bought this hoodie for my wife it should be here Monday and from the videos and reviews I think it will be fun to play with. It actually appeared on their site two years ago as an April fools joke and a couple of weeks ago it came into production. They have since sold out twice (first stock was gone in a day and the second and final stock lasted about three days) I think if they added an IR receiver or something that could allow duals at a LARP event or at least some sort of proximity sensor it would up the coolness factor.
 
Link to site https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/14d5/#mainwrapper
 
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc3jVX6cU2M