LCD display keyboard

I remember seeing someone's computer who used it for editing videos, and the keyboard had "editing symbols" on it's keys. I'm guessing it had some sort of rubber overlay covering a normal keyboard or something of that nature. But, that being the case, you'd have to switch overlays and the rubber would no doubt end up collecting all sorts of grime and crap overtime, not to mention that the areas where the keys go up and down would be ripped up from the pressing of the keys, or the labels would be rubbed off.

That's where this product comes in. Picture a normal keyboard-but with transparent keys, and clear plastic "surrounding" the keys on top, sans the letters on the keys-but all the keys in the same place and arrangement to avoid confusion on "special" keys (shift, spacebar etc). The reason for elimanating the letters? Well, there's a screen underneath which can be seen through the keys AND the "extra space" on top (between the arrow keys and the #pad, where there are no actual keys-just plastic). At the top, above the "normal" keys, there could be some extra keys (similar to the volume buttons that a lot of keyboards have these days)

I don't think the resolution would need to be that great-just good enough that you can actually see the letters :) The keyboard should, by default, when plugged into a computer that doesn't have the special software installed, behave like a normal keyboard and just display everything in it's usual, non-customized areas, so that you will have a functional keyboard to work with until you've installed the driver to alter the screen underneath. The CD that comes with the keyboard should have software for both PC and MAC, so that you can use it reguardless.

The software would allow you to make up to 10 "presets" which are switched by a row of dedicated buttons at the very top, which are skinnier than the others so that they won't be mistaken for the regular number keys. Each preset would have different keys set to do different things, with a corresponding icon underneath that key, and if you so choose, you could have a colored background or even a "keyboard theme" (i.e. strips of film and cameras for video editing, guns for shooting games, a cloudy sky for a plane game, etc-much like a cell phone wallpaper)

Obviously something like this will be way more expensive than a regular keyboard so I wouldn't reccommend one of these if you have drinks near the computer often :)