DIY Ambient Light Keyboard Kit

An anonymous reader writes " Do you envy new Apple 17" PowerBook keyboard? Here's keyboard light kits for all most any keyboard no matter which OS you are using. There's NINE choice of colors (Light Blue, Deep Blue, Hot Pink, Yellow, White, Purple, Neon Green, Lime Green, and Red) available but unfortunately not coming with light sensor. "

Comments

Why I envy the powerbook.

[prichardson]

I think that the real rwason to envy anything that apple sells is the graphics support. If you look at ANY other laptops on the market, do they have decent graphics? NO. The powerbook has a slightly dulled GeForce 4 w/ 64MB VRAM. That's better than the card on any desktop from a major PC retailer for under $1000. Also, if you ever look at the specs for a cheap ($700 or less) brand name PC, they have their graphics built into the motherboard. Yet they still claim that their P4 will make games dreamy and your downloads go faster. It's disgusting.

Re:Why I envy the powerbook.

[be-fan]

Actually, my Inspiron has the exact same graphics card, and it came out months ago. And even that has already been surpassed by the Radeon 9000.

Cool, but...

[FosterSJC]

First, the site is already slashdotted...

However, there were a few convenient mirror images and a similar product from thinkgeek.

Honestly though, isn't this just something to take to a LAN party or something; that is, just another way to mod your PC. The light from the monitor (at least CRTs) is enought to illuminate the keys for the most part. And if you are spending enough time with the computer that you are typing in the dark, you shouldn't have to look at the keyboard much anyway, right? This is cool-looking, but useless aside from wow-factor. Especially if you don't already have translucent keys, in which case only the between-keys area is lit anyway.

Re:PB keyboard backlighting is better

[Twirlip of the Mists]

Doesn't really matter I think. Most people who spend a lot of time can touch type, so as long as you can find the keyboard it doesn't really matter if you can see the letters.

Quick! Which key on your keyboard has the "&" character on it? Don't look!

What about the "["? Or the "`"?

Even touch-typists need to look at the keys sometimes.

Re:Ask Permission Before Submitting Story?

[bahwi]

I agree with what you say. But if you give it a few minutes, and let the link show up, you'll see it's a business and they're trying to make a profit. Free advertising like Slashdot, even when the site goes down many people come back to it, must be almost priceless. I hope they have enough stocked up.