kinda reminiscent of the 12 year old Nintendo DS display. and in that I suspect developers will by constantly trying to find a purpose, never to much avail beyond some hotkeys, that only hunt and peck typists could appreciate. remember the uber lusted, and uber expensive optimus keyboards?

I'm surprised you're the only person here who has so far mentioned Art Lebedev/Optimus.

I have an Optimus mini 3 and an Optimus keyboard.

The former I never really got along with as the oled drivers made a loud 18khz whine. The latter, however, I still use for photoshop, gaming, coding, etc. - ain't got no poxy touch strip, my entire keyboard is a technicolor discotechque.

That ribbon was updated dynamically depending on the application you were using? Did it allow you to re-arrange the commands on it? Did it support scrubbing/swiping as a method of input?

So did I, but it was a simply something that could have used physical keys. Was it dynamic based on the application you were using or configurable in any way?